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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 29, how many shakedowns were held a day on each tier?

2. In Chapter 23, how many times a week, weather permitting, would the CCR prisoners get to go in the yard?

3. In Chapter 31, when Woodfox got his first contact visit, how many years had it been since his last contact visit?

4. When was Herman Wallace arested on a bank robbery charge?

5. In Chapter 24, how much time did Woodfox and the others give the warden to respond to their demand to have food slots in their cell doors?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plea did King have to accept to gain his freedom and why in Chapter 42?

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

3. In Chapter 41, what did Woodfox and his attorneys learn about Joseph Richey, and why could they not use the information?

4. How did Woodfox, Wallace, and King become the Angola 3 in Chapter 40?

5. In Chapter 34, where was Woodfox's trial held, and why was that an issue?

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

7. When was the closest that Woodfox ever came to breaking and why?

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

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

10. How did Violetta die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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