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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of footwear did Charlie Jones, the Holman warden, wear?
(a) Cowboy boots.
(b) Black dress shoes.
(c) Athletic shoes.
(d) Brown loafer.

2. What did one guy on death row draw every day, all day?
(a) Squares.
(b) Triangles.
(c) Circles.
(d) Spirals.

3. In 2013, how many people had Hinton seen walk to their executions?
(a) 54.
(b) 37.
(c) 48.
(d) 61.

4. When Hinton had a soda while he and Bryan discussed petitioning the federal courts, what did he wish he had to drink?
(a) Beer.
(b) Rum.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Scotch.

5. What did Hinton jokingly ask a guard to borrow in Chapter 13?
(a) His truck.
(b) His Chevy.
(c) His SUV.
(d) His mini van.

6. When Hinton met Stevenson, how long had he been on death row?
(a) Almost 12 years.
(b) 9 years.
(c) 16 years.
(d) About 15 years.

7. When Hinton told Stevenson he wanted to go to the Supreme Court, what type of pie did he remember eating out of the vending machine over the last decades?
(a) Apple.
(b) Blueberry.
(c) Key lime.
(d) French silk.

8. If Hinton lost an appeal in the U.S. District Court, what Court of Appeals did Stevenson plan to file in after that?
(a) 12th.
(b) 13th.
(c) 11th.
(d) 14th.

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

10. Who did Larry have murdered?
(a) His father-in-law.
(b) His pregnant wife.
(c) His mother-in-law.
(d) His mother.

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

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

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

14. Where was Alan Black, Hinton's second lawyer that Stevenson assigned, from?
(a) Denver.
(b) Boston.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) New York City.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1999, how many experts did Stevenson get who agreed the bullets from the murders and robberies could not have come from Buhlar Hinton's gun?

2. When was Larry Heath executed?

3. What was the date of the first letter that Stevenson sent Hinton?

4. When did Stevenson write and tell Hinton about the order Judge Petro issued?

5. What verse did Hinton quote to Lester after the Rule 32 hearing during a visit in August?

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