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

2. What staffing agency was Hinton working for on the night of Quincy's robbery?
(a) Adecco Staffing.
(b) Alabama Staffing Services.
(c) Labor Finders.
(d) Manpower.

3. When was Larry Heath executed?
(a) March 20, 1992.
(b) March 15, 1992.
(c) March 27, 1992.
(d) March 3, 1992.

4. 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) French silk.
(b) Blueberry.
(c) Key lime.
(d) Apple.

5. What Supreme Court Justice wrote that Hinton might have been executed if the Surpeme Court had not ruled for further hearings in state court?
(a) Stephen Breyer.
(b) Anthony Kennedy.
(c) Sonia Sotomayor.
(d) Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Hinton had a soda while he and Bryan discussed petitioning the federal courts, what did he wish he had to drink?

2. At the time ballistics showed the bullets from Buhlar Hinton's gun did not match the bullets from the murders and robberies, how long had Hinton been in prison?

3. 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?

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

5. Who brought in cameras, pretended to be one of the prisoners, and spent a night on death row?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Hinton's mother always tell him, and how did that affect how he dealt with the guards and the warden?

2. How were the men on death row able to talk about books after the book club was closed down?

3. What scars did Hinton have from watching so many men die?

4. Why did Hinton have to make a family of the men on death row?

5. What were the qualifications of the ballistics experts Stevenson hired for Hinton?

6. What was strange about Judge Petro's ruling in 2009?

7. How did Hinton react when he learned his mother died?

8. Who spent a night on death row, and what did Hinton think about that?

9. What information did Emanuel, Cooper, and Dillon, the ballistics experts provide?

10. What did Hinton do during the six months it took Bryan to file his petition to the U.S. Supreme Court?

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