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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. In what County Jail is Ward incarcerated?
(a) Gerty County Jail.
(b) Ada County Jail.
(c) Pushmataha County Jail.
(d) Pontotoc County Jail.

2. According to Karl Fontenot, where does he work in Chapter 2?
(a) McDonalds.
(b) Subway.
(c) Wendy's.
(d) Taco Bell.

3. According to Tommy Ward in Chapter 7, what happened to Denice Haraway?
(a) She ran away with Marty Ashley.
(b) He stabbed her with a knife.
(c) He shot her in the back.
(d) She was kidnapped by Karl Fontenot.

4. What 1983 "no-body" case turned up in Oklahoma law?
(a) Rawlings.
(b) Brown.
(c) Carter.
(d) Smith.

5. What is the prescribed method of execution in the state of Oklahoma?
(a) Hanging.
(b) Electric chair.
(c) Decapitation.
(d) Lethal poison.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, who is brutally raped and strangled in her apartment on December 8, 1982?

2. According to a story in the Ada News, how much does Denice Haraway weigh?

3. According to the narrator, whose sister disappeared a year before Denice Haraway went missing?

4. Who is questioned by District Attorney Peterson about a blouse given to Denice Haraway as a gift?

5. Who does Don Wyatt hire in Chapter 9 to further investigate the Ward trial?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Richard Kerner say is his reason for always wearing a business suit in Chapter 9?

2. What alibi does Tommy Ward give to police in Chapter 2 about his whereabouts the night Denice Haraway went missing?

3. Describe the journey made on April 28, 1909, that was proves to be vitally important to those involved in the Haraway case.

4. What connection does District Attorney Bill Peterson make between his father's death and the Haraway case?

5. Discuss the major evidence collected in the Rawlings' case as described by the narrator in Chapter 6.

6. Why are there no spectators at the March hearing of the State of Oklahoma versus Ward / Fontenot?

7. In Chapter 3, what alibi does Tommy Ward give detectives for the day Denice Haraway? Is this the same story he had given to detectives the first time he was questioned? Explain.

8. According to the narrator, what was the turning point in the Ward family?

9. In Chapter 4, how does Tricia Ward's father react when she tells him her brother Jimmy was smoking marijuana?

10. Who is in the small courtroom at the opposite end of the hallway in the beginning of Chapter 8? Why are they in the courtroom?

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