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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Hinton born?

2. When was Hinton's trial scheduled?

3. What was the name of the mine that Hinton worked in?

4. How much money did Perhacs want to appeal Hinton's case to the U.S. Supreme Court?

5. How many guards were on the Death Squad?

Short Essay Questions

1. What charge was Hinton found guilty of, and what was his sentence?

2. How did time move in prison on death row?

3. How did Hinton learn that Lester was getting married, and why did he think that Lester did not tell him about his upcoming marriage?

4. How was Andrew Payne, the gun expert hired for Hinton's trial discredited?

5. Why would Hinton not sign the paper the police gave him when they brought him to the station after his arrest?

6. How did Hinton feel after his gun expert was discredited?

7. What agreement did Perhacs and McGregor make regarding Hinton's polygraph, and how did the deal change?

8. What was judicial override, and why did it often happen?

9. Who was Hinton's court-appointed lawyer, and how did he seem to feel about being assigned to defend Hinton?

10. What caused Hinton to change his mind about not talking or interacting while he was on death row?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hinton asked to be given a polygraph test. Why was his polygraph test not submitted as evidence during his trial?

Essay Topic 2

Bryan Stevenson became Hinton’s attorney after Hinton fired Alan Black. How and why did Stevenson become Hinton’s attorney?

Essay Topic 3

Hinton's mother always told him that "you get more flies with honey than with vinegar" (178). What did she mean by that statement? How did that teaching affect how Hinton treated guards and others in prison?

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