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

2. How does Deputy Looney describe Carl Lee?
(a) "For what he did, he deserves life."
(b) "He's a killer. He's worthy of death."
(c) "He's a hero. Give him a trophy."
(d) "It was an accident. But he deserves some prison time."

3. While they await the jury's verdict from Jake's office, what does Lucien confirm as he spins tales regarding his family's heritage?
(a) Ethel's daughter was Lucien's half-sister who died shortly after birth.
(b) Ethel is his mother.
(c) Ethel's retarded son is his half-brother.
(d) As a teen, his family paid his first love's family to move away.

4. At 5:00 a.m. Harry Rex arrives with biscuit sandwiches sent by Jake's favorite waitress at the Coffee Shop, and he discusses with Jake:
(a) Prospects for a temporary insanity plea.
(b) Potential jurors once again.
(c) Ellen Roark's credentials.
(d) His motion for change of venue.

5. What is Clyde Sisco's price?
(a) $500,000.
(b) $5,000
(c) $500.
(d) $50,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the Northern Mississippi black residents recognize as the single white radical NAACP attorney in their region?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. Where does Judge Noose advise the jurors they will be sequestered?

5. Ellen has done a masterful job of the M'Naghten brief, summarizing what into seventy-five pages directly applicable to the Hailey trial?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. On Monday, the first morning of the trial, what positions does Jake direct Ellen and Harry Rex, his two assistants, to assume?

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

4. What happens when Ellen first arrives at Jake's office on the Sunday the National Guard arrives?

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

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

7. What does Jake when the National Guard arrive?

8. What does Jake do on the balcony of his office after he returns from the Coffee Shop on the day the jurors deliver their verdict?

9. How do Buckley's and Jake's approaches differ?

10. How are the twelve jurors and two alternates sequestered?

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