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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was not an event completed by Nancy?
(a) Getting gas in her car.
(b) Talking on the phone to her best friend.
(c) Playing with her cat.
(d) Teaching neighbor girl to bake a cherry pie.

2. Where were Smith and Hickcock trying to go when they came back from the states from Mexico?
(a) Las Vegas.
(b) Oklahoma.
(c) Texas.
(d) California.

3. Where is the small drugstore that is described in part one of In Cold Blood?
(a) Kansas City at Holcom
(b) Olathe, Texas
(c) Kansas City at Olathe
(d) Holcomb, Kansas

4. What was wrong with Smith's mother?
(a) She was a drunkard.
(b) She died giving birth to him.
(c) She moved to Alaska.
(d) She joined the Merchant Marines.

5. What did Kenyon spend hours in the basement doing?
(a) Reading.
(b) Baking blueberry pies.
(c) Working on his mechanical inventions.
(d) Leading meetings of a variety of school clubs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the Clutter's children was known as the town darling?

2. Of what was Dewey an agent?

3. Which investigator was personal friends with the murder victims?

4. How old was Richard Hickock the night of the murders?

5. Who did Agent Dewey believe committed the crime?

(see the answer key)

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