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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who finds the business of selling Gary's letters ghoulish and distasteful?
(a) Stephanie
(b) Vern
(c) Bessie
(d) Leon

2. What does Nicole say she still senses ever after Gary's death?
(a) His car
(b) Her suicide attempt
(c) His presence
(d) His victims whispering to her

3. Who recognizes that with Gary's knowledge of drugs, he knew he wasn't taking a lethal dose of sleeping pills?
(a) Brenda
(b) Vern
(c) Nicole
(d) Gibbs

4. Larry Schiller is a former ________ photographer turned sensationalist writer and wanna-be documentary producer.
(a) Life
(b) Time
(c) Newsweek
(d) National Geographic

5. What kind of car does the answer to #98 drive, although it is in danger of being repossessed?
(a) Volvo
(b) Volkswagon bug
(c) Porsche
(d) Saab

6. What has Gary already willed to others?
(a) His organs
(b) His money
(c) His jewelry
(d) His clothing

7. Why does Gary have a temper tantrum which leads to his being forced to spend Christmas in solitary?
(a) He can't see Nicole
(b) He isn't allowed to talk to his mom
(c) The guard used a paper plate for his food
(d) He can't have a bible

8. Where is Schiller vacationing as the holidays occur over the years 1976 to 1977?
(a) Jamaica
(b) Florida
(c) Bali
(d) Hawaii

9. Who is the famous journalist/reporter that is in town trying to learn more about the Gary Gilmore case?
(a) Sally Smith
(b) Phil Donohue
(c) Geraldo Rivera
(d) Oprah Winfrey

10. Who is the pot-smoking, hippie-like, former prosecuting attorney from Boalt Hall?
(a) Roger Calhoun
(b) Earl Dorius
(c) Bill Barrett
(d) Dennis Boaz

11. What does Boaz have to do because the officers believe he is the one who sneaked sleeping pills into Gary?
(a) Stay away from the prison
(b) Pay a fine
(c) Go to jail for a few days
(d) Talk with him on a phone through glass

12. Who turns out to have been working undercover for several government agencies?
(a) Gibbs
(b) Brenda
(c) Vern
(d) Leon Schiller

13. Who is pissed off at Schiller for not being able to attend Gary's memorial service?
(a) Brenda Barrett
(b) Tamara
(c) Nicole
(d) Dennis Boaz

14. In Peter's vision, who is wearing the white robe and walking through walls?
(a) Gary
(b) Larry
(c) Earl
(d) Peter

15. What does Gary call those on the Parole Board who do not seek to fulfill the sentence they gave him?
(a) Molesters
(b) Cowards
(c) Useless
(d) Liars

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the Enquirer hire that seems to believe Gary does not actually want to die?

2. Who decides that wooing Gary's family might be a better way to get the rights to his story?

3. How often do the two lawyers for Gary still visit him each day?

4. What kind of pills does Nicole find in order to go through with her and Gary's suicide pact?

5. The US Supreme Court decided that the press does not have a constitutional right to enter prisons to ____________.

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