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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reaction to the press conference?
(a) It is a short clip on the 10:00 p.m. broadcast, and a short column with no photo in the back pages.
(b) It is a TV news hit, and the Hailey family photo appears on the front page.
(c) Primarily on TV news, and little in the newspapers.
(d) Nothing local, only in Jackson, Memphis, Atlanta and elsewhere.

2. During their picnic, what is Carl Lee's response when Gwen questions him about his commitment to bring in a few hundred dollars to make ends meet?
(a) He states he is doing the best he can.
(b) He firmly repeats that he will see what he can do.
(c) He remains silent.
(d) He reminds her he is still the man of the family.

3. What does Ozzie do after he is tipped off three minutes after midnight on July 12 that the Brigance home is to be blown up within three hours?
(a) Awakens Jake, and instructs him to take up a position with his rifle.
(b) Awakens Jake, and instructs him to take his family to the airport.
(c) Ignores the tip.
(d) Awakens Jake, and instructs him to send his family into hiding.

4. A convoy of how many buses carrying elderly blacks converge at the courthouse where Reverend Agee is holding a rally?
(a) 31.
(b) 27.
(c) 22.
(d) 42.

5. During the meeting of Jake's jury strategy team, what do the black citizens do?
(a) Maintain a candlelight vigil surrounding the courthouse and jail.
(b) Maintain a candlelight vigil surrounding the courthouse.
(c) Maintain a candlelight vigil surrounding the jail.
(d) Maintain a prayer vigil at local black churches.

6. During one phone call to Carla shortly prior to the trial, whose situation is Jake careful not to bring up?
(a) Gwem Hailey's.
(b) Reverend Agee's.
(c) Bud Twitty's.
(d) Ozzie Walls'.

7. After Jake tells Ethel to shut up or quit when she informs him about his $4,000 in unpaid bills, less than $1,900 in the bank, and his failure to see clients or drop off promised files, what does she do?
(a) She yells she has put up with his childishness long enough.
(b) She firmly states he could find no replacement to last a week.
(c) She angrily responds by throwing papers and storming out.
(d) She tearfully explains about the threatening phone calls, and her husband's ill health.

8. How long does the preliminary hearing for Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard last?
(a) 20 minutes.
(b) 10 minutes.
(c) 30 minutes.
(d) 40 minutes.

9. The Sunday after Jake gets fired, he and Carla skip church and take Hanna where?
(a) On a picnic.
(b) Canoeing.
(c) Kite flying.
(d) To a zoo.

10. On the morning of the day he first meets Ellen, what is it Jake recalls Carla could tell during their phone conversation the night before?
(a) That he had jut awoken from a deep sleep.
(b) That he was still in his office and eating takeout food.
(c) That he was tired and had not gotten enough sleep.
(d) That he was drunk.

11. Where is Carl Lee seated during the change of venue hearing?
(a) Next to Jake, as required by court procedures.
(b) Still being examined by doctors.
(c) Carl Lee chose to stay in jail.
(d) Next to Jake, by his own choice.

12. Lester Hailey has driven to Clanton from where?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Pittsburgh.
(c) New York.
(d) Chicago.

13. When does Agee agree to get the "love offering" funds for the Hailey family to Gwen?
(a) When Ozzie says he could tell the church of his stolen car, DUI, and funeral home kickbicks.
(b) When Jake threatens to prosecute.
(c) When Carl Lee threatens to tell everyone of Agee's dirty dealings.
(d) When Ozzie threatens to arrest him.

14. Norman Reinfeld, the thirty-year-old Jewish supervisor of the NAACP defense team, graduated from which law school?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

15. Why does the name of Clyde Sisco cause some stir during the meeting of Jake's jury strategy team?
(a) Lucien says Sisco owes him, as he got him off of prior charges.
(b) Lucien tells how he "bought" Sisco in a previous case.
(c) Lucien says Sisco is white, but has a daughter with a black girlfriend.
(d) Lucien states Sisco is one of few whites at Tank's Tonk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Carla and Jake, raised as Baptist and Methodist respectively, have agreed to become what?

2. After being threatened by Marsharfsky, Jake does what?

3. Following Carl Lee's preliminary hearing, what does Jake attempt to do in the interview with New York Times reporter McKittrick?

4. What three individuals were aware of what would likely take place, so the double murder does not surprise them?

5. Days before the trial, Gwen Hailey calls Jake and informs him she is behind on house payments, the utilities might be shut off, and has only received how much from the church council?

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