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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How would Sam prefer to die rather than glorify his behavior?
(a) With comment.
(b) Unforgiven.
(c) Forgiven.
(d) Without comment.

2. Who is the new prison chaplain?
(a) Phelps Booth.
(b) Philip Naifeh.
(c) George Nugent.
(d) Ralph Griffin.

3. As part of his preparation, where is Sam moved from his long-term cell?
(a) Gas chamber.
(b) Observation cell.
(c) Isolation room.
(d) Nowhere.

4. Why is the place where Lee and Adam spent a weekend together at the beginning of Chapters 26-29 important to Lee?
(a) Family memories.
(b) Vacation memories.
(c) Hometown.
(d) Where Lee went to school.

5. How are things getting outside of Parchman Prison?
(a) Rowdy.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Tense.
(d) Calm.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time is Adam called about Lee?

2. Overall, how does Sam appear to Adam?

3. What does Sam ask his visitor for shortly before his execution?

4. What does the Governor have to gain through Sam's clemency?

5. What does McAllister find out through his effort to communicate with voters?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Carmen and what does she see as she visits Sam for the first time?

2. Lee shares childhood memories with Adam. Lee shares the story of her brother, Eddie, and her grandfather, Sam, with Joe and Qunice Lincoln. Who are these people and how do they play such a vivid memory in Lee's past?

3. Both Lee and Adam have news for each other. What is the news they share with each other?

4. How does Governor McAllister agree to clemency for Sam?

5. How does Sam prepare for death after the decision from the hearing?

6. Where and how does Adam react, or want to react, when he sees Lee?

7. Explain the mental incompetence hearing for Sam in Jackson, and the decision.

8. Who is the other visitor that Sam has at the prison shortly after Adam leaves?

9. Explain how law students are helping to execute Adam's plan set up by Garner Goodman.

10. What was the purpose of Adam's trip to New Orleans?

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