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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 | Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 borderline dishonest lifestyle.
(b) A most affluent, honest lifestyle.
(c) A moderate, but totally honest lifestyle.
(d) A most affluent, dishonest lifestyle.

2. Jake's friend Harry Rex Vonner tells him the grand jury voted how on the Hailey indictment?
(a) 10-8.
(b) 13-5.
(c) 12-6.
(d) 11-5.

3. What is Tonya carrying when she is kidnapped?
(a) Her school books.
(b) A bag of groceries.
(c) An armful of firewood.
(d) A basket of fish and a pole.

4. How does Jake Brigance view the Carl Lee Hailey murder trial?
(a) An opportunity to earn money.
(b) With a four-year-old daughter of his own, he feels merely empathy.
(c) As his ticket to the big time.
(d) Solely as an opportunity to help a person of color.

5. When Lucien Wilbanks inherited the family law firm in 1965, what does he keep?
(a) His father's entire legal staff.
(b) His father's favorite hunting rifles.
(c) A brank new Ford Mustang.
(d) His father's favorite secretary, Ethel Twitty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Ku Klux Klan meeting when Freddie Cobb, Billy Ray's brother, is stipulating to the Imperial Wizard that that they must get involved?

2. What does Carl Lee Hailey feel his chances are, now that he has been arrested and charged with two counts of murder?

3. What illegal item does Carl Lee Hailey request to buy from K.T. "Cat" Bruster?

4. What is Jake Brigance accustomed to doing on his office balcony?

5. When interviewed by TV journalists the day before Carl Lee's preliminary hearing, what does Jake tell them a Mississippi jury has as options when trying capital murder?

(see the answer key)

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