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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following people was considered the prosecution's most damaging witness?
(a) Alvin Dewey.
(b) Susan Kidwell.
(c) Nancy Ewalt.
(d) Kansas Bureau of Investigation forensic expert.

2. How did Smith imagine he would commit suicide while in jail?
(a) By hanging himself with sheets from the bed.
(b) By slitting wrists with a shiv.
(c) By slitting his wrists with pieces of a lightbulb.
(d) By hanging himself with belt.

3. What was the name of Nancy's old mare that helped to comfort Bobby Rupp?
(a) Church.
(b) Babe.
(c) Nye.
(d) Duntz.

4. Who sent a postcard to the warden at the prison where Smith and Hickock were incarcerated after their trial?
(a) Don Cullivan.
(b) Smith's father.
(c) Hickock's father.
(d) Smith's sister.

5. What type of weather was occurring as Hickock and Smith were brought back to Garden City?
(a) Sunny and bright.
(b) Raining hard.
(c) Snow falling.
(d) Foggy and drizzling.

6. What did detective Nye show Hickock on the second day of the interrogation?
(a) A photo of Floyd Wells.
(b) A photo of the footprints at the scene.
(c) A photo of the murders.
(d) A photo of he and Smith at the Clutter's house.

7. What punishment was decreed to Smith and Hickock by the jury?
(a) Life in prison.
(b) Death for Hickock but not for Smith.
(c) Death.
(d) Life with the possibility of parole.

8. What did the window of Smith's cell overlook?
(a) The town square.
(b) The Clutter house.
(c) The police station.
(d) Another prisoner's cell.

9. Where did Smith and Hickock go once they reached Las Vegas?
(a) Penitentiary.
(b) Restaurant.
(c) Hotel.
(d) Post office.

10. Who worked together to interview Smith in the Las Vegas jail?
(a) Church and Duntz.
(b) Nye and Duntz.
(c) Dewey and Duntz.
(d) Dewey and Nye.

11. Who work together to interview Hickock in the Las Vegas jail?
(a) Nye and Church.
(b) Nye and Dewey.
(c) Church and Dewey.
(d) Duntz and Church.

12. Who volunteered to examine Hickock and Smith?
(a) Meier.
(b) Jones.
(c) Wells.
(d) Cullivan.

13. in Part 3 of In Cold Blood, where was the most recent address Detective Nye had for Smith?
(a) Olathe.
(b) Kansas City.
(c) Las Vegas.
(d) Fort Scott.

14. What did Hickock and Smith use the money collected from turning in empty bottles for?
(a) A big meal.
(b) To mail packages of sentimental items to Las Vegas.
(c) More bottles filled with alcohol.
(d) A car.

15. How did Floyd know the Clutters?
(a) He worked for Mr. Clutter.
(b) He killed the Clutters.
(c) He dated Nancy Clutter.
(d) He is a relative of Mrs. Clutter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the jurors were farmers like the Clutters?

2. What did Hickock want to do to Nancy before killing her?

3. What sound could be heard as Hickock and Smith were escorted into the Garden City county jail?

4. What was the only real evidence that Dewey had for the Clutter murders?

5. Who was the only one Hickock knew could truly incriminate him?

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