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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. 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) Tells women what to say to get off the jury.
(b) Advises others he is not allowed to tell about the questioning.
(c) Tells them what to say if they want to get off.
(d) Advises other blacks what they will be asked and how to answer.

2. How is the riot quelled?
(a) Three deputies fire their revolvers into the air.
(b) Deputies from an adjacent county arrive on scene.
(c) Additional Ford County deputies arrive on scene.
(d) State Troopers arrive on scene.

3. Do the jurors and alternates attempt to discuss the case in violation of the judge's instructions?
(a) Yes, on the bus enroute to the Temple Inn.
(b) Yes, in same-sex pairs while roomed at the Temple Inn.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, on a pay-phone in the Temple Inn lobby to family.

4. Despite the urging of his friends, Jake is determined to do what?
(a) Take time off to be by himself to think things out.
(b) Stay in town a few days while he has the media in palm of his hands.
(c) Go to see Ellen Roark and Woody Maclenvale.
(d) Fly to be with Carla and Hanna.

5. Where do Lucien, Harry Rex, and Jake go after talking with Wanda Womack and Mack Loyd Crowell?
(a) Jake's office.
(b) The Lake.
(c) The Hailey's.
(d) Lucien's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Jake and Harry Rex go to the lake in the latter's pickup truck rather than the former's Saab after going to Memphis to visit the hospital?

2. When Jake objects as Lucien broaches the topic of buying a jury, the latter reminds him of what?

3. 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?

4. What is Clyde Sisco's price?

5. When Jake and Harry Rex arrive at the Memphis hospital to visit Ellen, her father, Sheldon Roark, explains what about the injuries to her head that required thirty-nine stitches?

Short Essay Questions

1. Shortly after midnight, following the riot in the courthouse square, what do five teams of the KKK do?

2. What are some of the changes in perspective the Carl Lee Hailey trial has had on Jake?

3. Why is Lucien able to draw thousands of black residents from northern Mississippi to Clanton to demonstrate on behalf of Carl Lee?

4. What transpires as the forty Ku Klux Klansmen arrive to demonstrate at the courthouse where the black protesters held their vigil?

5. In Chapter 37, how does the consumption or abuse of alcohol come into play?

6. Why is everyone relieved when Jake declines to question Murphy, the janitor, in cross-examination?

7. Upon arrival at the hospital to visit Ellen following the Ku Klux Klan attack, how does her father describe to Jake and Harry Rex the way she incurred injuries to the head requiring thirty-nine stitches?

8. What transpires when Clyde Acker walks for a cola at the Temple Inn?

9. On the second day of the trial, what happens to Gerald Ault, Jake's "ace-in-the-hole"?

10. What happens when Jake requests a change of venue from Judge Noose following the riot and cross-burnings?

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