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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When were CCR prisoners given a yard?
(a) 1973.
(b) Around 1976 and 1977.
(c) 1978.
(d) Between 1974 and 1975.

2. By 1982, how long had Woodfox been in solitary confinement?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 12 years.
(c) 11 years.
(d) 13 years.

3. How long in Chapter 44, did it take Woodfox to exhaust all his appeals to the state for his case and was able to file in federal court?
(a) 9 years.
(b) 7 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 6 years.

4. In Chapter 46, how much money did Miller's widow receive a week for a short time after his death?
(a) $45.
(b) $35.
(c) $25.
(d) $55.

5. In Chapter 32, what book did Woodfox read by Richard Wright?
(a) Black Boy.
(b) Native Son.
(c) The Outsider.
(d) Uncle Tom's Children.

6. What prisoners did Woodfox help in Chapter 36?
(a) Brazilians.
(b) Cubans.
(c) Columbians.
(d) Mexicans.

7. When was Chris Aberle appointed to represent King by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court?
(a) 1994.
(b) Early 1990s.
(c) Late 1990s.
(d) 1998.

8. In Chapter 43, when was it ruled that Wallace and Woodfox's civil suit against cruel and unusual punishment could move forward?
(a) January 2002.
(b) February 2002.
(c) April 2002.
(d) March 2002.

9. In Chapter 41, how many stitches did Howard Baker say he received at Angola, and he only had an inmate to sew him up?
(a) 11.
(b) 31.
(c) 22.
(d) 19.

10. In Chapter 23, how many times a week, weather permitting, would the CCR prisoners get to go in the yard?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

11. When did Woodfox's mother die?
(a) September 3, 1994.
(b) October 17, 1994.
(c) November 9, 1994.
(d) December 27, 1994.

12. In Chapter 44, when did a team of New York-based lawyers take on the civil lawsuit that Woodfox and Wallace had filed against their solitary confinement?
(a) 2005.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2003.
(d) 2006.

13. What constitutional amendment guarantees effective counsel?
(a) 10th.
(b) 11th.
(c) 8th.
(d) 6th.

14. In Chapter 39 with the appeal Kathy Flynn Simino filed in 1999, how many chances did Woodfox have to appeal in state court?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

15. When did Woodfox write his poem I Wait?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1979.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after his mother died did Woodfox write the poem Echoes?

2. In Chapter 29, how long were the shifts that guards worked?

3. When was Ji-Jaga Pratt released from prison in Chapter 37?

4. When ws warden Burl Cain hired at Angola?

5. How long did Woodfox and King go on a hunger strike in Chapter 24?

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