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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. How long was Hinton in the county jail when all the charges against him were dropped?

2. In Chapter 15, how many books in addition to the Bible were prisoners allowed to have on death row?

3. 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?

4. How many assistant attorneys general attended Hinton's Rule 32 hearing?

5. Who did Hinton marry in his imagination after he divorced Halle Berry?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Baldwin sentenced to die?

2. What type of ballistic expert did Hinton tell Stevenson he needed?

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

4. In 1999, who did Stevenson have interviewed regarding Hinton's case?

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

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

7. Why did Lester think that he and Hinton used to jump in ditches when they walked home from school?

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

9. How was Hinton finally exonerated?

10. How long did it take Judge Garrett to rule on Hinton's hearing, and what did he rule?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What type of relationship did Hinton have with his mother, and how did it affect the type of person he became?

Essay Topic 2

Why was Henry Hays’s sentencing and execution important to Blacks?

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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