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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 a sworn statement Leonard Turner gave in Chapter 41, how many men did he say that he saw stab Miller and they were not Wallace, Woodfox, or Montegut?

2. When was King first sent to Angola on a robbery charge?

3. In Chapter 44, when did a team of New York-based lawyers take on the civil lawsuit that Woodfox and Wallace had filed against their solitary confinement?

4. In Chapter 29, how long were the shifts that guards worked?

5. In Chapter 37, how old was Scott Fleming?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Woodfox have to get used to when he was let out in the general prison population in Amite City?

2. In Chapter 26, what did Woodfox and Wallace decide about everthing they were suffering?

3. What was summer like in a cell?

4. What did people say after Woodfox's trial ended in Chapter 38?

5. Who was Craig Haney, and what did his research show about solitary confinement?

6. What was Herman's life like before he was arrested in 1967?

7. In Chapter 24, how did things change at Angola when Ross Maggio became the warden?

8. In Chapter 39, what did Woodfox say about the officers at Camp J?

9. In Chapter 31, how long had it been since Woodfox had a contact visit and what was the visit like?

10. Who was Anita Roddick, and how did she die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the memoir? Why is it not a biography?

Essay Topic 2

Is Woodfox a reliable narrator? Provide evidence from the memoir to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Woodfox, Wallace, and King protested against practices in prison. Why did Woodfox, Wallace, and King protest against solitary confinement, strip searches, and other practices in prison? Why did they consider those practices to be cruel and unusual punishment?

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