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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. Who is Adam's unexpected visitor while he is working on another petition?
(a) Steve Roxburgh.
(b) Wyn Lettner.
(c) Garner Goodman.
(d) David McAllister.

2. Why is the place where Lee and Adam spent a weekend together at the beginning of Chapters 26-29 important to Lee?
(a) Where Lee went to school.
(b) Vacation memories.
(c) Hometown.
(d) Family memories.

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

4. This news of resurfacing of someone (or others) means what for Adam?
(a) Anger.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Danger.
(d) Sadness.

5. As part of his preparation, where is Sam moved from his long-term cell?
(a) Observation cell.
(b) Gas chamber.
(c) Isolation room.
(d) Nowhere.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sam ask his visitor for shortly before his execution?

2. Where do Adam and Lee decide to spend their weekend together at the beginning of Chapters 26-29?

3. Overall, how does Sam appear to Adam?

4. Who does Adam find a note from on the counter when he arrives home?

5. After Sam's initial cell, how many different places is he moved to before the gas chamber?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Sam and his relationships with family members as his execution draws closer.

2. How is Sam preparing for his execution?

3. Why does Lee disappear for an entire day and evening?

4. Lee shares childhood memories with Adam. Lee shares the story of her brother, Eddie, and her grandfather, Sam, with Joe and Qunice Lincoln. Who are these people and how do they play such a vivid memory in Lee's past?

5. How is Sam's last day a busy one?

6. Both Lee and Adam have news for each other. What is the news they share with each other?

7. Where and how does Adam react, or want to react, when he sees Lee?

8. Why does Adam believe it would be a good idea to visit Marvin Kramer's family?

9. Explain the mental incompetence hearing for Sam in Jackson, and the decision.

10. Explain how law students are helping to execute Adam's plan set up by Garner Goodman.

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