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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pact did Smith and Hickock make after the murders?
(a) To stay together until the police hunt them down.
(b) To stay together, no matter what.
(c) To separate and come back together in another country.
(d) To stay apart, no matter what.

2. What activity did Nancy, Kenyon, and Herb do on their final night alive?
(a) Watch TV.
(b) Play board games with Bobby.
(c) Bake pies.
(d) Read.

3. Where is the small drugstore that is described in part one of In Cold Blood?
(a) Olathe, Texas
(b) Holcomb, Kansas
(c) Kansas City at Olathe
(d) Kansas City at Holcom

4. What was Smith's sister's name?
(a) Nancy.
(b) Gibson.
(c) Otto.
(d) Barbara.

5. What is the largest town near Holcomb?
(a) Garden City.
(b) Olathe.
(c) Hartman's City.
(d) Kansas City.

6. What did Hickock do to get some money for himself and Smith?
(a) Stole merchandise and cash.
(b) Robbed a bank.
(c) Wrote several bad checks.
(d) Found a sunken treasure.

7. How did Smith expect to get the money to pay back everyone he and Hickock had conned?
(a) Money from the murder of the Clutters.
(b) Traveling across the country.
(c) Working hard in Mexico as a mechanic.
(d) Finding sunken treasure in Mexico.

8. What memento did Smith save from his sister?
(a) Binoculars.
(b) A guitar.
(c) A biography and family tree.
(d) A letter.

9. Mrs. Clutter experienced depression after which event?
(a) Death of her mother.
(b) Death of her father.
(c) Marriage of her oldest child.
(d) Birth of her last two children.

10. What did Hickock know would make Smith the perfect partner for this criminal activity?
(a) Explosive emotional reactions.
(b) Poetic imagination.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Creativity.

11. How did Smith and Hickock continue to earn money in Mexico?
(a) Hunting for treasure.
(b) By selling stolen goods.
(c) Writing bad checks.
(d) Murder for hire.

12. Who was Nancy's boyfriend?
(a) Bobby Rupp.
(b) Perry Smith.
(c) Herb Clutter.
(d) Richard Hickock.

13. What was the breakfast Herb had on his last day alive?
(a) Bacon and eggs.
(b) Cereal and milk.
(c) Oatmeal and juice.
(d) Apple and milk.

14. Why was Hickock sure that Smith would not have any problem with committing the murder?
(a) It was in the past, and they agreed to never look back.
(b) Because He himself had no difficulties with it.
(c) He thought Smith had murdered before.
(d) He knew Smith had no conscious.

15. Which individual believed that treasure hunting was an unrealistic fantasy?
(a) Smith.
(b) Helm.
(c) Dewey.
(d) Hickock.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was not one of the good qualities Willie Jay saw in Smith?

2. Who had won blue ribbons for baking pies?

3. How old was Alvin Adams Dewey in Part 2 of In Cold Blood?

4. Why was a passing stranger considered a suspect in the Clutter murders?

5. How old was Herb Clutter when he died?

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