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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. 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 angrily responds by throwing papers and storming out.
(b) She firmly states he could find no replacement to last a week.
(c) She yells she has put up with his childishness long enough.
(d) She tearfully explains about the threatening phone calls, and her husband's ill health.

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

3. What is Jake's view of insurance companies and their lawyers?
(a) Jake hates them both.
(b) Jake understands the need for them, but does not like them.
(c) Jake is jealous and wishes he could be one.
(d) Jake has defended the insurance side and sees the need.

4. 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 send his family into hiding.
(c) Awakens Jake, and instructs him to take his family to the airport.
(d) Ignores the tip.

5. Judge Omar Noose initiated his career as a mediocre lawyer but good politician who served five terms in the state legislature, and during which he developed what?
(a) A moderate, but totally honest lifestyle.
(b) A most affluent, honest lifestyle.
(c) A moderate, but borderline dishonest lifestyle.
(d) A most affluent, dishonest lifestyle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tonya restrained with while being raped?

2. When does Agee agree to get the "love offering" funds for the Hailey family to Gwen?

3. How does Carl Lee compare killing the white men who raped his daughter with killing the "gooks" in Vietnam?

4. Lester tells Carl Lee what when he visits his cell?

5. How is Ford County Sheriff viewed by the local citizenry?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways does John Grisham show that Jake relishes being back on center stage once he is Carl Lee's attorney?

2. How does John Grisham depict the events taking place in Clanton as carnival-like?

3. How are the key characters depicted as selfish and self-centered in Chapter 24?

4. Why does Judge Noose impose a gag order?

5. What is Ellen Roark's response to Jake when he quizzes her on her credentials?

6. What does the reader learn in the dialogue between Carl Lee Hailey and Jake Brigance in Chapter 4?

7. In Chapter 10, what does Lucien advise Jake his best courses of action are in Carl Lee's defense?

8. What do readers learn about Jake Brigance in Chapter 8?

9. What observations on the part of Jake's secretary irritate him to the point he advises her to keep quiet or quit?

10. What does the reader learn about the Ford County District Attorney in Chapter 7?

(see the answer keys)

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