1. Where does the story that In Cold Blood investigates take place?
a) Finney, Kansas.
b) Holcomb, Kansas.
c) Kansas City, Texas.
d) River Valley, Kansas.
2. Which of the following is not an accurate description of Herb Clutter?
a) Frugal.
b) Bad business sense.
c) Spartan.
d) No-nonsense.
3. From which of the following does it say in the book that Herb abstained from?
a) Cigarettes.
b) Meat.
c) Sex.
d) Alcohol.
4. Who was Herb's wife?
a) Eveanna.
b) Beverly.
c) Nancy.
d) Bonnie.
5. What do the locals describe Herb's wife as suffering from?
a) Seizures.
b) Drug addiction.
c) Spells.
d) Alcoholism.
6. Mrs. Clutter experienced depression after which event?
a) Death of her father.
b) Death of her mother.
c) Birth of her last two children.
d) Marriage of her oldest child.
7. Where did Mrs. Clutter spend the majority of her time?
a) In the barn.
b) In bed.
c) In a closet.
d) In her sewing room.
8. Which kind of treatment did Bonnie receive?
a) Psychiatric.
b) Acupuncture.
c) Allergy.
d) Oncological.
9. How many children did the Clutter's have?
a) 4.
b) 5.
c) 3.
d) 2.
10. How many of the Clutter children were still living at home at the time of the murders?
a) 3.
b) 2.
c) 4.
d) 5.
11. Which of the Clutter's children was known as the town darling?
a) Beverly.
b) Eveanna
c) Nancy.
d) Kenyon.
12. Which of the Clutter children was somewhat eccentric?
a) Eveanna.
b) Beverly.
c) Kenyon.
d) Nancy.
13. What did Kenyon spend hours in the basement doing?
a) Leading meetings of a variety of school clubs.
b) Reading.
c) Baking blueberry pies.
d) Working on his mechanical inventions and building things.
14. Who had won blue ribbons for baking pies?
a) Eveanna.
b) Kenyon.
c) Nancy.
d) Beverly.
15. Who was Nancy's boyfriend?
a) Herb Clutter.
b) Richard Hickock.
c) Bobby Rupp.
d) Perry Smith.
16. About how far away from the Clutter's town is the place that the killers started their journey from?
a) 400 miles.
b) 500 miles.
c) 300 miles.
d) 450 miles.
17. How did Hickock and Smith meet?
a) At the drugstore.
b) As inmates at the Kansas State Penitentiary.
c) As inmates at the Texas State Penitentiary.
d) At the Clutters' house.
18. Which individual was a rodeo-performer at one time?
a) Kenyon Clutter.
b) Nancy Clutter.
c) Richard Clutter.
d) Perry Smith.
19. Which individual is part Cherokee, with dark eyes, and a dark complexion?
a) Kenyon Clutter.
b) Perry Smith.
c) Richard Clutter.
d) Herb Clutter.
21. Which individual was in a car accident that left his face crooked?
a) Richard Hickock.
b) Herb Clutter.
c) Perry Hickock.
d) Perry Smith.
22. Which individual is shown to be primarily a schemer and a con man?
a) Richard Hickock.
b) Perry Hickock.
c) Nancy Clutter.
d) Perry Smith.
23. What did Smith and Hickock do to a 1949 Chevrolet sedan?
a) Gave it a tune-up.
b) Crashed it.
c) Stole it.
d) Washed it.
24. Which of the following was not an event completed by Nancy?
a) Talking on the phone to her best friend.
b) Teaching neighbor girl to bake a cherry pie.
c) Playing with her cat.
d) Getting gas in her car.
25. What activity did Nancy, Kenyon, and Herb do on their final night alive?
a) Play board games with Bobby.
b) Bake pies.
c) Read.
d) Watch TV.
26. What is the largest town near Holcomb?
a) Kansas City.
b) Garden City.
c) Olathe.
d) Hartman's City.
27. What apparently was used to kill all of the murder victims?
a) A bat.
b) Ropes.
c) A gun.
d) Knives.
28. Which individual was found dead on top of the mattress box?
a) Mr. Clutter.
b) Mrs. Clutter.
c) Kenyon.
d) Nancy.
29. Where were Kenyon and Mr. Clutter's bodies found after the murder?
a) Their bedrooms.
b) The dining room.
c) The basement.
d) The living room.
30. Who was the prime suspect for the murders at the end of Part 1 of In Cold Blood?
a) Richard Hickock.
b) Larry Hendricks.
c) Susan Kidwell.
d) Bobby Rupp.
1. Where did Perry and Dick first hear about their crime after it was commited?
a) In the newspaper.
b) From town gossips.
c) From a premonition.
d) On the radio.
2. What did Dick finally admit to Perry about the crime?
a) He left behind evidence that he should not have left behind.
b) He wanted to separate and go his own way.
c) He was sure the police know it was them.
d) He had some wrong information about the Clutters.
3. What pact did Perry and Dick make after the murders?
a) To stay together, no matter what.
b) To stay apart, no matter what.
c) To stay together until the police hunt them down.
d) To separate and come back together in another country.
4. In Perry's nightmare, what always saved him in the end?
a) A green, finch-like bird.
b) A yellow, parrot-like bird.
c) A yellow, finch-like bird.
d) A green, parrot-like bird.
5. When did Perry's recurring nightmare begin?
a) In jail.
b) In childhood.
c) In his late teens.
d) After the murders.
6. How many people attended the Clutter funeral?
a) 500.
b) 1,000.
c) 2,000.
d) 100.
7. Who was impressed by the number of people that attended the Clutter funeral?
a) Perry.
b) Gibson.
c) Dewey.
d) Dick.
8. What did Dick do to get some money for himself and Perry?
a) Wrote several bad checks.
b) Stole merchandise and cash.
c) Found a sunken treasure.
d) Robbed a bank.
9. How did Perry expect to get the money to pay back everyone he and Dick had conned?
a) Working hard in Mexico as a mechanic.
b) Finding sunken treasure in Mexico.
c) Traveling across the country.
d) Money from the murder of the Clutters.
10. Which individual believed that treasure hunting was an unrealistic fantasy?
a) Perry.
b) Helm.
c) Dick.
d) Dewey.
11. Which two states did Perry and Dick travel through before they made their way to Mexico?
a) Arizona and Oklahoma.
b) New Mexico and Arizona.
c) Arizona and Texas.
d) Oklahoma and Texas.
12. Which of his possessions was beloved by Perry?
a) Gibson guitar.
b) Car.
c) Treasure.
d) Binoculars.
13. Why was Dick sure that Perry would not have any problem with committing the murder?
a) Because He himself had no difficulties with it.
b) It was in the past, and they agreed to never look back.
c) He thought Perry had murdered before.
d) He knew Perry had no conscious.
14. Why did at least one family decide to leave Holcomb after the murders?
a) Because the murders were unsolved.
b) Because townsfolk had become gossips.
c) More murders had been occurring in the town.
d) Because they knew someone from Holcomb committed the murder.
15. Where did Perry and Dick meet Otto?
a) Acapulco.
b) Texas.
c) Oklahoma.
d) Kansas.
16. What did Mr. Helm see in Mrs. Clutter's window?
a) A shotgun and knife.
b) Someone inside.
c) A ghost.
d) Flowers.
17. Why did Perry and Dick sell their stolen car in Mexico?
a) Someone offerred them a lot of money for it.
b) They were out of money.
c) The police were looking for the car.
d) It did not work anymore.
18. What was wrong with Perry's mother?
a) She moved to Alaska.
b) She died giving birth to him.
c) She joined the Merchant Marines.
d) She was a drunkard.
19. Who joined the Merchant Marines?
a) Perry's father.
b) Perry.
c) Perry's mother.
d) Perry's sister.
20. What happened to the lodge that Perry and his father built and ran in Alaska?
a) His father continued running it without Perry.
b) It failed.
c) It fell into the ocean.
d) They sold it to join the Merchant Marines.
1. How did Floyd Wells hear about the Clutter murders?
a) He heard it from neighbors gossiping.
b) He read about it in the newspaper.
c) He heard it on the radio.
d) He heard it on the television.
2. Where was Floyd Wells when he heard about the Clutter murders?
a) In his jail cell in the Texas State Penitentiary.
b) At the post office in Olathe.
c) In his jail cell in the Kansas State Penitentiary.
d) On the River Valley Farm.
3. How long had it been since Floyd had seen the Clutters when he read about their murder?
a) 11 years.
b) 15 years.
c) 5 years.
d) 12 years.
4. How did Floyd know the Clutters?
a) He dated Nancy Clutter.
b) He is a relative of Mrs. Clutter.
c) He killed the Clutters.
d) He worked for Mr. Clutter.
5. Who did Floyd tell about his time with the Clutters?
a) Dewey.
b) Nye.
c) Dick.
d) Perry.
6. Who did Wells tell about his story?
a) Warden.
b) Nye.
c) Dewey.
d) Dick.
7. Who interviewed Dick's parents?
a) Dewey.
b) Warden.
c) Wells.
d) Nye.
8. Where did Dick's father say that his son and Perry had gone when they left town?
a) To visit Perry's brother.
b) To visit Dick's brother.
c) To visit Dick's sister.
d) To visit Perry's sister.
9. What kind of gun was used to kill the Clutters?
a) .12-gauge shotgun.
b) Browning Auto-5.
c) Model 1100.
d) BT-99.
10. Who supposedly lived in Fort Scott, Kansas?
a) Perry's brother.
b) Dick's brother.
c) Dick's sister.
d) Perry's sister.
11. Where did Perry's sister live in Part 3 of In Cold Blood?
a) North of Fort Scott.
b) North of San Francisco.
c) North of Kansas City.
d) North of Las Vegas.
12. What was the only real evidence that Dewey had for the Clutter murders?
a) Two sets of fingerprints.
b) A witness in Floyd Wells.
c) The .12-gauge shotgun.
d) Two sets of boot prints.
13. Where did Perry and Dick go once they reached Las Vegas?
a) Hotel.
b) Restaurant.
c) Penitentiary.
d) Post office.
14. What happened to Perry and Dick in front of the hotel in Las Vegas in Part 3 of In Cold Blood?
a) They opened the package they mailed to themselves from Mexico.
b) They gathered empty bottles.
c) They bought a big meal.
d) They were arrested.
15. What plans did Dick share with the agents during his interview in the Las Vegas City jail?
a) To running a race without a finish line.
b) To buy a boat and take tourists deep-sea diving.
c) How he planned the Clutter murder.
d) To begin a singing career as Perry O'Parsons.
16. What did Dick say was his and Perry's alibi?
a) Taking two girls to a motel.
b) Eating dinner with the hitchhikers.
c) Taking tourists deep-sea diving.
d) Singing with Perry O'Parsons.
17. Why did Perry ask for an aspirin during the interrogation in a Las Vegas jail?
a) So that he could get a chance to talk to Dick.
b) To stop the pain in his head.
c) To stop the interrogation.
d) To ease the pain of his legs.
18. What did detective Nye show Dick on the second day of the interrogation?
a) A photo of the murders.
b) A photo of the footprints at the scene.
c) A photo of he and Perry at the Clutter's house.
d) A photo of Floyd Wells.
19. How much money did Dick tell Perry Mr. Clutter always kept in his safe?
a) $1,000.
b) $10,000.
c) $1,000,000.
d) $100,000.
20. Why did Perry ask for an aspirin during the interrogation in a Las Vegas jail?
a) So that he could get a chance to talk to Dick.
b) To stop the pain in his head.
c) To stop the interrogation.
d) To ease the pain of his legs.
21. How much money did Dick tell Perry Mr. Clutter always kept in his safe?
a) $1,000.
b) $10,000.
c) $1,000,000.
d) $100,000.
22. Which Clutter did Perry talk to about their life before they were killed?
a) Kenyon.
b) Nancy.
c) Mr. Clutter.
d) Mrs. Clutter.
23. What item did Perry ship from Mexico which helped to incriminate him?
a) Boots.
b) Gun.
c) Knife.
d) Photographs.
24. What did the detectives tell both Perry and Dick existed, regarding the Clutter case?
a) A DNA match.
b) A cellmate witness.
c) A photo of them committing the crime.
d) A living witness.
25. Where was the safe supposed to have been in the Clutter house?
a) In the bedroom.
b) In the basement.
c) In the barn.
d) In the office.