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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21 | Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Hailey indictment is not mentioned on TV until a brief 10:00 p.m. news segment, so what is Jake's response?
(a) He laughs.
(b) He yells angily and tosses a sofa pillow at the TV.
(c) He does some paperwork.
(d) He orders pizza.

2. Who begs Sheriff Ozzie Walls to reopen the local "tonks"?
(a) The local ministers.
(b) Parents of young children.
(c) The schoolboard members.
(d) The local AA director.

3. What is the reaction to the press conference?
(a) It is a TV news hit, and the Hailey family photo appears on the front page.
(b) It is a short clip on the 10:00 p.m. broadcast, and a short column with no photo in the back pages.
(c) Primarily on TV news, and little in the newspapers.
(d) Nothing local, only in Jackson, Memphis, Atlanta and elsewhere.

4. After being threatened by Marsharfsky, Jake does what?
(a) Lights a cheap cigar, and writes a complaint regarding Marsharfsky.
(b) Lights an expensive Caribbean cigar, and writes a complaint regarding Marsharfsky.
(c) Lights an expensive Cuban cigar, and writes a change of venue request.
(d) Lights a cheap cigar, and writes a change of venue request.

5. 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?
(a) In a barn on an abandoned farm, 20 miles outside Vicksburg.
(b) Deep in the woods of Nettles County, 230 miles south of Clanton.
(c) In a warehouse in an industrial park, late at night.
(d) Deep in the woods of Durham County, 125 miles northeast of Clanton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Jake calls Lester in Chicago?

2. Following his motion to withdraw on Friday, Jake does what?

3. When Jake Brigance confides in Sheriff Walls that Carl Lee Hailey may be planning the murder of Cobb and Willard, what do they speculate about how they might feel?

4. Where is Tonya seated in the interview with Jake and the Hailey family?

5. Why does Lucien advise Jake he needs to seek a change of venue?

(see the answer key)

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