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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 his lungs were burning with?
(a) Fossil fuels.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Cold air.
(d) Warm air.

2. What does Abbott say he thought was crushing him?
(a) Stones.
(b) People.
(c) Walls.
(d) Steel doors.

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

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

5. What is the name of the poem Abbott recites in this chapter?
(a) Death.
(b) Lies.
(c) Fools.
(d) Paranoia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbott condemn every government employee of the prison system as?

2. What does Abbot say is the natural result of prison violence?

3. What does Abbott say he did in 1971?

4. What was Abbott sent to Butner North Carolina Correctional Institute for?

5. What does Abbott say prison has tried but failed to take away from him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Abbott fight the tedium of solitary confinement?

2. Why does Abbott think the law against cruel and unusual punishment is a joke?

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

4. What is life like for Abbott in solitary confinement at the juvenile center?

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

6. What does Abbott say about revolution at the end of the chapter?

7. Why does Abbott say he continuously violates prison rules?

8. How do his fellow inmates save Abbott from starvation?

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

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

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