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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jake decide to stay out of the Coffee Shop?
(a) Since being fired, he regrets the TV footage, and wants to avoid locals.
(b) He got into an argument with his favorite waitress.
(c) He had a bad breakfast there one morning and got sick.
(d) The manager asked him to because he represented Carl Lee and business was down.

2. While Jake and Ellen are working on various issues of the case, whom do they invite to join them on the balcony of the law office?
(a) Harry Rex.
(b) Lucien.
(c) Deputy Nesbit.
(d) Ozzie Walls.

3. When Jake and Buckley are in the judge's office the day before the arraignment, what does the former request?
(a) 90 days to prepare.
(b) 120 days to prepare.
(c) 60 days to prepare.
(d) 180 days to prepare.

4. How is Ford County Sheriff viewed by the local citizenry?
(a) He is respected and loved by black residents primarily, not white residents.
(b) He is respected and loved by white residents primarily, not black residents.
(c) He is respected and loved by virtually all, both black and white residents.
(d) He is not respected nor loved by many black or white residents.

5. What does Carl Lee Hailey feel his chances are, now that he has been arrested and charged with two counts of murder?
(a) He is moderately confident, never hoping for too much.
(b) He is confident Jake Brigance will get him off, as he did his brother.
(c) He is not as confident as Jake Briance was on TV.
(d) Hoping, but not expecting much in a predominantly white community.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the name of Clyde Sisco cause some stir during the meeting of Jake's jury strategy team?

2. 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?

3. As the riot erupts, what is each Klansman armed with?

4. Ollie Agee, the Hailey's pastor, convenes the Council of Ministers, a board of the local black ministry, which decides to do what?

5. Where does Deputy Nesbit take Ellen to sleep the night before the trial opens?

(see the answer key)

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