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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Abbott say sex acts are demonstrations of?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Hate.
(c) Love.
(d) Power.

2. What does Abbott say his lungs were burning with?
(a) Warm air.
(b) Cold air.
(c) Fossil fuels.
(d) Cigarettes.

3. Why does Abbott think the law against cruel and unusual punishment is a joke?
(a) Only convicts witness it.
(b) It is the only way prisoners learn.
(c) People have their different ideas of cruelty.
(d) Most prisoners have never heard about the law.

4. What is the name of the punk Abbott refers to in this chapter?
(a) Davis.
(b) Peter.
(c) Gerard.
(d) Horatio.

5. What do Abbott's fellow inmates do to ensure Abbott's release from the the starvation diet?
(a) Take a guard hostage.
(b) Break Abbott free.
(c) Give Abbott their food.
(d) Go on strike.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do guards look upon prisoners as?

3. What does Abbott say intelligence becomes if it is robbed of actual experience?

4. Where does Abbott say he is marched to as a thirteen-year-old boy?

5. Who does Abbott say he does not believe in?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Abbott feel when he returns from prison life to solitary confinement?

2. How did the guards treat Abbott's claustrophobia?

3. What does Abbott say about the noise in a prison?

4. What happened to Striker?

5. What does Abbott say about paranoia in this chapter?

6. What does Abbott say the prisoners have in common?

7. What is a punk?

8. How does Abbott compare prison to a bull ring and the prisoner to a bull?

9. Why does Abbott describe X's death as a mercy killing?

10. What is supersanity?

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