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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Abbott comapre the noise one hears inside a prison to?

3. Where does Abbott claim he has spent days lost?

4. Which of the following philosophers is Abbott particularly drawn to?

5. What is a prisoner given once a day as part of the C-300 punishment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Abbott say Pigs are so dangerous?

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

3. What is the policeman mentality?

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

5. Who are pigs?

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

7. What was Abbott's time like at the Butner North Carolina Federal Correctional Institution?

8. What is a punk?

9. What happened to Striker?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How would Abbott cope in the outside world? How do you think conditions in prison could be changed to help socialize the inmates better?

Essay Topic 2

What are Abbott's political beliefs and how do you think these beliefs developed? Considering he has spent all his life in prison, how legitimate are Abbott's beliefs?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Abbott feel it is important to choose sides? What problems occur from people choosing one side over the other? Are these problems apparent in Abbott's own life?

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