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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Subsequent to Bass's testimony, what does Jake do when the lawyers are summoned to the judge's chambers?
(a) Passes Carl Lee without being able to look at him.
(b) Stops in a restroom enroute and vomits.
(c) Has Harry Rex go back to the office and grab a file.
(d) Grabs a shot of bourbon from Lucien's pocket flask.

2. What question does Jake ask of Ozzie during cross-examination that Buckley wildly objects to and Jake withdraws, but Ozzie has already nodded affirmatively to?
(a) Whether either Cobb or Willard signed a confession prior to death?
(b) Did either verbally confess prior to death?
(c) Did Pete Willard agree to sign a confession for leniency prior to death?
(d) Whether Pete Willard signed a confession prior to his death?

3. After going to the lake with Harry Rex, Jake visits Lucien and discovers what?
(a) Lucien is drunk and is working on Jake's summation.
(b) Lucien is passed out, but has nearly finished Jake's summation.
(c) Lucien has been drinking and working on Jake's summation.
(d) Lucien is sober and working on Jake's summation.

4. In questioning jurors individually in chambers as to their position on the death penalty, one black male lies and is allowed to remain, and he later does what?
(a) Advises other blacks what they will be asked and how to answer.
(b) Tells them what to say if they want to get off.
(c) Advises others he is not allowed to tell about the questioning.
(d) Tells women what to say to get off the jury.

5. Why is Lucien furious on the morning of the shooting attempt to kill Jake?
(a) That someone has attempted to take Jake's life.
(b) He has kept Dr. Bass sober all night and his testimony will be postponed.
(c) The National Guard colonel waited before senting someone to check.
(d) The National Guard did not check out the silo amongst other locations.

6. When Jake addresses the jury, what does he first apologize for?
(a) His mistakes due to inexperience.
(b) Their having to be sequestered.
(c) His inability to be at court on Friday.
(d) Dr. Bass.

7. Who else does Jake visit in the Memphis hospital?
(a) Woody Mackenvale, the National Guardsman.
(b) Wallie Macintyre, the National Guardsman.
(c) Wayne Miller, the National Guardsman.
(d) Willie MacKenzie, the National Guardsman.

8. When the jurors arrive the next morning for further deliberation, how are they taken from the bus to the courthouse?
(a) Through a back entrance using two vans instead of a bus.
(b) By Ozzie and National Guardsmen through the crowd.
(c) By National Guardsmen through the crowd.
(d) By deputies through the crowd.

9. Ellen explains that it will be impossible to keep what from the jury?
(a) The gory pictures of Willard and Cobb's bodies.
(b) The M-16 automatic rifle.
(c) The fact that Deputy Looney was shot and lost a leg.
(d) Carl Lee's apologizing to Deputy Looney.

10. Ellen has done a fine job preparing the doctor, including a twenty-five-page dialogue of the questions Jake will ask, and the answers for whom?
(a) Dr. T. W. Bass, retired podiatrist.
(b) Dr. W. T. Bass, retired psychologist.
(c) Dr. W. T. Bass, retired psychiatrist.
(d) Dr. W. T. Blast, retired pediatrician.

11. On Friday, day five of the trial, Ozzie and Deputy Nesbit wake Jake before 5:00 a.m. to inform him "Mickey Mouse" has reported what?
(a) The Klan plan to kill Jake on the day of Stump Sisson's funeral.
(b) The Klan plan to bomb his office.
(c) The Klan plan again to blow up Jake's home.
(d) The Klan plan to shoot him and Carl Lee in court today.

12. What happens to Ellen on her way to Oxford on the evening of the shooting?
(a) She has a motor vehicle accident.
(b) She is intentionally run off the road by a sedan.
(c) She is intentionally run off the road by a pickup truck.
(d) She is pulled over by a vehicle with flashing blue lights.

13. Why does Jake recognize Gerald Ault as a supporter of black people?
(a) Ault was raised by a black "nanny" until he was in his early teens.
(b) Although a secret few knew, Ault's first girlfriend was black.
(c) Ault was rescued as a boy from a burning building by a black person.
(d) Ault was rescued as a boy from drowning by a black person.

14. When Jake has Ellen focus on Dr. Wilbert Rodeheaver, the state's mental expert, he asks her to center on cases where acquittals resulted because he suspects what?
(a) He is reluctant to declare anyone "insane."
(b) He has always been siding with the state.
(c) He has never declared a black person "insane."
(d) He has some shady connections.

15. On Saturday morning following the shooting attack he survived, Jake surmises that both Lucien and Bass were drunk yesterday and driven home by Deputy Nesbit, and while he drinks a Bloody Mary, Jake prays what?
(a) That Carl Lee can get off.
(b) That nothing worse takes place.
(c) That Dr. Bass is sober for court.
(d) That his motion for a mistrial will be accepted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jake learn Wanda Womack lives with?

2. Where does Reverend Agee spend his time during the trial?

3. Although Jake wished he had not worn ostrich skin boots, Lucien argues what?

4. On Saturday morning, the day after Jake was shot at, the rumor in Clanton is that the shooters claim to be whom?

5. Following Jake's closing before the jury, he and Lucien are drinking on Lucien's front porch where Deputy Nesbit helps himself to what?

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