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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. When was Hinton's Rule 32 hearing scheduled for and then postponed?

2. In what movies did Hinton see his second imaginary bride act in?

3. What did Hinton say he owned in the trips he took in his imagination?

4. When was Henry executed?

5. At the time when Judge Petro handed down a decision on whether Payne was competent, when was Jimmy Dill scheduled to be executed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the prisoners on death row try to comfort Henry when his father died?

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

3. Why did Hinton decide to start a book club?

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

5. Why did Hinton have to make a family of the men on death row?

6. Who spent a night on death row, and what did Hinton think about that?

7. What happened to Henry's father?

8. How were the men on death row able to talk about books after the book club was closed down?

9. In 2013, what did Hinton tell Stevenson to do and why?

10. What did Hinton's mother always tell him, and how did that affect how he dealt with the guards and the warden?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Hinton referred to his trial and conviction as a legal lynching. Why did Hinton refer to his trial and conviction as a legal lynching?

Essay Topic 3

Imagery is a literary device authors use to describe people in a narrative and the world they inhabit. Imagery involves using the five senses to describe individuals, places, and things. How did Hinton use imagery to help readers imagine the world where individuals lived in The Sun Does Shine?

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