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

2. What does Abbott say intelligence becomes if it is robbed of actual experience?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Hate.
(c) Locked.
(d) Pure.

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

4. What does Abbott say he finds painful and angering to look into?
(a) A microscope.
(b) A mirror.
(c) A telescope.
(d) A window.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the author Abbott references at the end of the chapter?

3. What is the name of the poem Abbott recites in this chapter?

4. What does Abbott call intelligence robbed of experience?

5. Which of the following does Abbott say strikes him as beautiful when he is out of solitary?

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