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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how far away from the Clutter's town is the drug store?
(a) 500 miles.
(b) 300 miles.
(c) 400 miles.
(d) 450 miles.

2. When Hickock and Smith went out on the boat, who did not go into the water?
(a) Hickock.
(b) Helm.
(c) Smith.
(d) Otto.

3. When did Smith's recurring nightmare begin?
(a) In jail.
(b) In childhood.
(c) After the murders.
(d) In his late teens.

4. Who did one of the agents find out had a negative business transaction with the Clutters and had made threats toward Herb?
(a) Bobby Rupp.
(b) A pair of men; one who knew the family and his accomplice.
(c) A father and son.
(d) A pair of men who did not know the family at all.

5. What did Hickock finally admit to Smith about the crime?
(a) He had some wrong information about the Clutters.
(b) He wanted to separate and go his own way.
(c) He left behind evidence that he should not have left behind.
(d) He was sure the police know it was them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not an accurate description of Herb Clutter?

2. How did Smith expect to get the money to pay back everyone he and Hickock had conned?

3. How much was the life insurance police that Herb Clutter took out worth?

4. Where did Smith and Hickock first hear about their crime after it was commited?

5. How did Hickock and Smith meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Larry Hendrick accompany Mr. Ewalt back to the Clutter house when the murders were discovered?

2. Who wrote down the license plate number of the stolen car Smith and Hickock were driving, a 1956 Chevrolet?

3. Since childhood, what reoccured for Smith?

4. What happened to the request to abolish the verdict for Smith and Hickock?

5. What did Hickock say he believed even after he admitted that the he had some wrong information about the Clutters?

6. Who did Hickock blame for the crimes after he and Smith were arrested in Las Vegas?

7. Why did Hickock want to ditch the hitchhikers?

8. What did Smith and Hickock do right after the Cutter murders?

9. On what did the doctor blame much of Smith's mental health damage?

10. When one of Dewey's agents turned up a father and son who completed business with the Clutters, why were they considered suspects even for a very short period of time?

(see the answer keys)

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