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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Doing Time, I. November 16, 1975.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John feel in looking at the prisoners?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Fear.
(c) Disgust.
(d) Sympathy.

2. What does Robby say people in the ghetto dream about?
(a) Living easy in the Virgin Islands.
(b) The glamour of having a lot of money.
(c) Getting out of the ghetto.
(d) A house with a white picket fence.

3. Who does John say he had to adjust to in college?
(a) The local blacks.
(b) The teachers and administrators.
(c) The janitors and maids.
(d) Rich white kids.

4. What is the Homewood Avenue neighborhood?
(a) A subdevelopment.
(b) A slum.
(c) An industrial district.
(d) A shopping district.

5. How does John characterize Western State Penitentiary?
(a) An imposing nineteenth-century prison.
(b) A relatively nice prison.
(c) A gleaming modern prison.
(d) A decrepit institution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is John?

2. How does John characterize the difference between his mother and father?

3. How does Robby meet Johnny-Boy?

4. How many years separate John and Robby?

5. What Catch-22 was John caught in?

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