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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Hole: Solitary Confinement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two people did Abbott learn had died during his time in the C-300 cell?
(a) Malcolm X and his sister.
(b) President Nixon and his brother.
(c) JFK and his mother.
(d) Bobby Kennedy and his father.

2. What city did Abbott escape to?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York.
(c) Montreal.
(d) New Orleans.

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

4. What does Abbott say he had to do to urinate while in the Butner institution?
(a) Twist his torso.
(b) Ring a bell.
(c) Stand on his head.
(d) Beg.

5. What does Abbott say he can't control?
(a) His writings.
(b) His fear.
(c) His anger.
(d) His tears.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbott think theory must be studied in absence of?

2. What does Abbott say one feels happening to oneself when they are in the hole?

3. Why was Abbott sent to the Utah State Penitentiary?

4. What does Abbott say he is amazed of the feel of when he is out of solitary?

5. What does Abbott liken the experience of a being in a black cell to?

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