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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said "the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons"?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
(c) Alexander Pushkin.
(d) Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

2. What did Hinton learn to fly when he used his imagination to escape Holman?
(a) Jet.
(b) Helicopter.
(c) Glider.
(d) Hot air balloon.

3. In how many cases had the ballistic experts testified that Stevenson hired for Hinton's Rule 32 hearing?
(a) About 3,000.
(b) 1,750.
(c) Over 2,000.
(d) 2,450.

4. What was the name of the Black boy Henry Hays and other white guys lynched in Mobile in 1981?
(a) Michael Donald.
(b) Charles Peters.
(c) Steven Richards.
(d) William Andrews.

5. Who did Hinton marry in his imagination after he divorced Halle Berry?
(a) Jennifer Lopez.
(b) Nicole Kidman.
(c) Sandra Bullock.
(d) Catherine Zeta-Jones.

6. Where were Bryan Stevenson's offices in Alabama?
(a) Birmingham.
(b) Mobile.
(c) Huntsville.
(d) Montgomery.

7. During the Rule 32 hearing, how many years did Stevenson tell the judge they had been attempting to get the State to reexamine the bullet evidence?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 9.

8. How long was Andrew Lackey on death row before he was executed?
(a) 8 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 5 years.

9. How many people did Warden Jones think he might allow to be in Hinton's book club?
(a) 5 to 10.
(b) 8 to 10.
(c) 4 to 6.
(d) 6 to 8.

10. How old was Hinton the year of his Rule 32 hearing?
(a) 46.
(b) 45.
(c) 44.
(d) 47.

11. When did Stevenson tell the judge at the Rule 32 hearing that the State's experts decided they could no longer match the bullets from the robberies and murders to Buhlar Hinton's gun?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1994.

12. When did Stevenson write Judge Garrett when there was still no update on Hinton's Rule 32 hearing?
(a) September 23, 2004.
(b) September 16, 2004.
(c) September 5, 2004.
(d) September 19, 2004.

13. When did Alan Black file an amended Rule 32 petition for Hinton?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1994.

14. In Chapter 16, who did Hinton imagine that he married?
(a) Whitney Houston.
(b) Cicely Tyson.
(c) Halle Barry.
(d) Tyra Banks.

15. Who brought in cameras, pretended to be one of the prisoners, and spent a night on death row?
(a) Montel Williams.
(b) Jerry Springer.
(c) Phil Donahue.
(d) Geraldo Rivera.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of day did court rulings usually come in?

2. How many white guys were in the group Hinton started?

3. At the time when Judge Petro handed down a decision on whether Payne was competent, when was Jimmy Dill scheduled to be executed?

4. What book did Jimmy Dill ask to borrow from Hinton?

5. When was Hinton's appeal denied by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals and Stevenson planned to appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court?

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