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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Robby say is true of all valuable things?
(a) They are only available to whites.
(b) They depend on the prison bureaucracy.
(c) They are worth working hard for.
(d) They are transitory.

2. Who is Leslie?
(a) A prison guard.
(b) A prisoner's sister.
(c) Robby's girlfriend.
(d) John's assistant.

3. Why was Robby arrested?
(a) For passing a bad check.
(b) For stealing heroin.
(c) For beating his girlfriend.
(d) The cops found the heroin in his apartment.

4. What does John say happens to Robby when his appeals are turned down?
(a) He becomes angry and combative.
(b) He starts to do advocacy work.
(c) He sinks into depression and stops working.
(d) He loses motivation to keep taking classes.

5. What is different about the trip John makes to the prison in 'Doing Time II'?
(a) He tries to smuggle in some heroin for Robby.
(b) He goes alone.
(c) He stops to visit in the Homewood Avenue district.
(d) He takes his wife and Jamila.

6. What does John say doesn't feel right about this trip?
(a) He has a feeling of foreboding about Robby's appeals.
(b) He doesn't feel like he can face Robby himself.
(c) He isn't prepared by the drive.
(d) He gets lost.

7. What does Robby say motivated him to work hard?
(a) The possibility of freedom.
(b) Material gain.
(c) Self-improvement.
(d) The threat of further punishment.

8. What ritual does John say he goes through when he sits with Robby?
(a) Setting up his pens and pad.
(b) Setting up his microphone and camera.
(c) Setting up his tape recorder.
(d) Reading Robby what he's written since the last time he visited.

9. Who did Robby work with at a home?
(a) Rehab patients.
(b) Poor children.
(c) Autistic kids.
(d) Ex-cons.

10. Where does Robby plan to go, after Chicago?
(a) New York.
(b) Indiana.
(c) Michigan.
(d) L.A.

11. What is the normal ritual for John's trips to the prison?
(a) He has to take his daughter.
(b) He has to stop off in the Homewood Avenue district.
(c) He has to be with his family.
(d) He can't have anything metal on him.

12. How did Robby, Mike and Cecil know that they were in big trouble?
(a) The white guys were running around.
(b) Stavros was dead.
(c) Stavros' girlfriend saw their faces before they shot Stavros.
(d) The cops showed up.

13. How does Robby characterize the people he worked with?
(a) Dangerous felons.
(b) Unstable junkies.
(c) Space cadets.
(d) Tortured kids.

14. What does John say Robby displays that he himself does not think he could display?
(a) Fear.
(b) Exasperation with the prison system.
(c) Courage in prison.
(d) Lack of control over his rage.

15. What does Robby say he found when his girlfriend woke him up after buying heroin?
(a) A gang trying to kill him.
(b) Fire trucks in the street.
(c) His dealers coming to sell the heroin.
(d) A Cadillac outside the door.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of scams did Robby and Michael Dukes start to run?

2. What pact does Robby say he and the others had made?

3. How much did Robby spend on heroin?

4. How does Robby characterize the person who helps them?

5. How did Stavros find out that he had been set up?

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