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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 14, for what were the dorms at Angola named?

2. When did Woodfox remember that he won his first law suit in Chapter 19?

3. When did Woodfox have his first child?

4. How many points were there in the program of the Black Panther Party?

5. Where was Woodfox born?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 3, why was Woodfox sentenced to two years at the Thibodaux jail?

2. Why was Paul Fobb an unreliable witness for Brent Miller's murder?

3. How did Woodfox and Herman Wallace work to stop the sex trade at Angola?

4. In Chapter 10, what did Woodfox learn from the Black Panthers?

5. How was the Black Panther Party started and why?

6. How did Woodfox describe how his first child was born in Chapter 2?

7. At the beginning of Chapter 2, what would Woodfox and his friends do after school?

8. How did Woodfox and others get a chance to speak to the media and Rep. Dorothy Mae Taylor in Chapter 13?

9. When and where was Woodfox born?

10. What happened to the money raised for Woodfox's trial expenses in 1973?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Woodfox discover that leaders should be willing to sacrifice to achieve their goals? What did he discover about sacrifice? Why did he come to believe that sacrifice was essential to bring about change?

Essay Topic 2

Woodfox suffered institutional racism from the time he was a child. What is institutional racism? How did it affect Woodfox’s life and the lives of his friends and family?

Essay Topic 3

Woodfox spent over 40 years in solitary confinement. How did solitary confinement affect Woodfox mentally, emotionally, and physically? What did he do to try to survive? Why were his actions necessary to help him survive?

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