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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sam ask his visitor for shortly before his execution?
(a) Gum.
(b) Food.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) New clothes.

2. Who does Sam enjoy a visit from shortly before his execution?
(a) Adam.
(b) Donnie.
(c) Lee.
(d) Carmen.

3. Who does Adam find a note from on the counter when he arrives home?
(a) Garner Goodman.
(b) Ku Klux Klan.
(c) Lee.
(d) Rollie Wedge.

4. Who is Joe Lincoln?
(a) Attorney.
(b) Eddie's childhood best friend.
(c) Father of Eddie's childhood best friend.
(d) Ku Klux Klan member.

5. How many Eskimo pie ice cream desserts does Sam consume for his last dinner?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

6. On what morning does the prison warden wake up with chest pain?
(a) Tuesday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Sunday.

7. After Sam's initial cell, how many different places is he moved to before the gas chamber?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

8. What do Adam and Lee visit that is now abandoned and overgrown with weeds?
(a) Cemetery.
(b) Childhood home.
(c) Church.
(d) School.

9. Who is the prison warden?
(a) George Nugent.
(b) Ralph Griffin.
(c) Phelps Booth.
(d) Philip Naifeh.

10. Who does Sam think came to visit him shortly after Adam left Sam?
(a) Lee.
(b) Adam.
(c) Donnie.
(d) Rollie.

11. McAllister says that if they can secure Sam's alleged accomplice, he would agree to what?
(a) Parole.
(b) Clemency.
(c) Release.
(d) An appeal.

12. Who, that Adam knows, is also friends with the Governor?
(a) Marvin Kramer.
(b) Garner Goodman.
(c) Sam Cayhall.
(d) Rollie Wedge.

13. How many days is it before Lee emerges from her alcoholic binge, refreshed and sober again?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

14. Who has Adam asked for assistance from as he moves forward with some ideas?
(a) George Nugent.
(b) Ralph Grifin.
(c) Garner Goodman.
(d) Philip Naifeh.

15. In Adam's petition, he claims that Sam is mentally incompetent to be executed. Who supports this?
(a) Judge Slattery.
(b) Dr. Swinn.
(c) Adam.
(d) Garner Goodman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What place does Lee show Adam when they are on their weekend together?

2. Who is the state executioner?

3. Where does Adam have to travel to present his argument regarding the ethics of the gas chamber?

4. Who has an intense desire to leave after the reading of the death warrant?

5. What types of people are gathering outside of Parchman Prison?

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