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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Nicole pick up, although she has promised not to sleep with anyone else?
(a) Sam Smith
(b) Dennis Boaz
(c) Larry Schiller
(d) A hitchhiker

2. What does Boaz get from the answer to #113 that allows him to confess his innocence in getting Gary sleeping pills?
(a) Immunity
(b) Media coverage
(c) Money
(d) Marijuana

3. What are Stephanie, her mother, and Schiller's mother planning to try to sell to overseas markets?
(a) Nicole's letters
(b) Nicole's diary
(c) Gary's clothing
(d) Schiller's audio

4. Which newspaper goes to a judge in order to stop the prison's stance on no-interviews?
(a) San Francisco Chronicle
(b) Salt Lake City Tribune
(c) Chicago Tribune
(d) Utah News

5. Who has arranged for Gary to talk with Nicole at his execution sentencing?
(a) Leon Snyder
(b) Bob Moody
(c) John Schiller
(d) Denniz Boaz

6. Who does the Enquirer hire that seems to believe Gary does not actually want to die?
(a) Expert in handwriting
(b) Expert in voice analysis
(c) Minister
(d) Psychologist

7. What time was Gary supposed to have taken the pills he and Nicole promised to take in order to commit suicide?
(a) 2:00AM
(b) Midnight
(c) 6:00AM
(d) 4:00AM

8. Who is already publishing excerpts of the letters of Nicole and Gary?
(a) Life
(b) Enquirer
(c) Time
(d) The Globe

9. Gil Athay is an attorney for one of the ________, and he soon gets into the fray as well.
(a) Manson killers
(b) The Zodiac Killers
(c) Copycat killers
(d) Hi-Fi Killers

10. What does Geraldo promise the viewers of his segment about the execution that they will be able to hear?
(a) The blood spatter
(b) The weeping
(c) The screams
(d) The shots

11. Who turns out to have been working undercover for several government agencies?
(a) Gibbs
(b) Leon Schiller
(c) Brenda
(d) Vern

12. When others tell Gary he needs to get back at Gibbs, what does Gary say? "I can __________ from here."
(a) See the truth
(b) Handle it
(c) See the problem
(d) Make plans

13. How often do the two lawyers for Gary still visit him each day?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c)
(d) 4

14. Who is the famous journalist/reporter that is in town trying to learn more about the Gary Gilmore case?
(a) Sally Smith
(b) Oprah Winfrey
(c) Geraldo Rivera
(d) Phil Donohue

15. Who seems to have the inside track with Gary since he has a verbal agreement with Boaz?
(a) David Susskind
(b) Oprah Winfrey
(c) Stanley Greenberg
(d) Larry Schiller

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nicole say she still senses ever after Gary's death?

2. Larry Schiller is a former ________ photographer turned sensationalist writer and wanna-be documentary producer.

3. Who does Gary have a date with on the morning of his execution?

4. How long of a time period after the ruling must a prisoner be executed in?

5. For what magazine is the interview that Farrell is working out as Schiller is on vacation?

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