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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. What are the results of the polygraph test?

2. Why does Robert say he signed a confession?

3. What did Joseph do to the young man he and Robert kidnapped?

4. What does Robert say he would be willing to do if someone killed young children?

5. What does Helen say Robert's mother's tears speak louder than?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Robert try to excuse his crime?

2. Why does Helen liken the pardon hearing to a firing squad?

3. What does Helen learn from the newspaper account of Robert's trial?

4. What advice does John Croft give Helen and Millard about Robert's hearing?

5. How does Helen support her involvement in Patrick's execution?

6. What does Helen lean about Faith's death in this section?

7. How does Robert claim the police duped him?

8. Why does Howard say he continued to accept the bribes?

9. Why does Robert say he admires the Aryan Brotherhood?

10. What was Robert WIllie's crime?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why are Helen and Patrick so drawn to each other? What kind of relationship could they have had in the outside world?

Essay Topic 2

What are the arguments for and against the death penalty? What are your own views on the death penalty?

Essay Topic 3

What problems does Helen have with Robert? How does it affect her relationship with him?

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