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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Manslaughter for 20 years, capital murder for life or death, and not guilty.
(b) Manslaughter with immediate parole, capital murder for life, and not guilty.
(c) Manslaughter for 25 years, capital murder for life or death, and not guilty.
(d) Manslaughter for 20 years, capital murder for life or death, and guilty.

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

3. Jake knows Judge Noose will feel how about the National Guard being called in?
(a) Understanding it is the mayor's job to ensure city safety, not the judge's.
(b) Furious that he was not consulted.
(c) Wishing he had been consulted, but not upset.
(d) Glad that another measure to ensure safety was taken.

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

5. On Saturday morning following the shooting attack he survived, Jake surmises that both Lucien and Bass were drunk yesterday and driven home by Deputy Nesbit, and while he drinks a Bloody Mary, Jake prays what?
(a) That Dr. Bass is sober for court.
(b) That his motion for a mistrial will be accepted.
(c) That nothing worse takes place.
(d) That Carl Lee can get off.

Short Answer Questions

1. Subsequent to Bass's testimony, what does Jake do when the lawyers are summoned to the judge's chambers?

2. On the morning of the day he first meets Ellen, what is it Jake recalls Carla could tell during their phone conversation the night before?

3. What is Clyde Sisco's price?

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

5. As the Mississippi Imperial Wizard of the Klan speaks from the podium, there are 40 Klansmen marching at the courthouse and how many black people?

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