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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Capital Punishment and Gary Gilmore.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did one newspaper document that happened following several executions?
(a) Violent acts.
(b) A community wide crime spree.
(c) A riot.
(d) A communtiy wide depression.

2. What does Abbott think are treated better than people in the hole?
(a) Siberian war prisoners.
(b) Prisoners on death row.
(c) Animals in a zoo.
(d) Refugees.

3. What does Abbott believe prison controls?
(a) One's potential.
(b) One's body.
(c) One's thoughts.
(d) One's life.

4. Which of the following does Abbott say whites use to prove they are superior?
(a) Physiological tests.
(b) Reaction tests.
(c) Intelligence tests.
(d) Speech tests.

5. What does Abbott say he was sent to prison to become?
(a) A worker.
(b) A shifter.
(c) A writer.
(d) A punk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbott compare the hole to?

2. What was the only part of his body that X could move?

3. What does Abbott say a prisoner is killed in?

4. What is a shiv?

5. What does Abbott call the gradual wearing away of healthy aspects of one's psychology?

(see the answer key)

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