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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Judge Noose advise the jurors they will be sequestered?
(a) They will be sequestered in the courthouse with National Guard security.
(b) In a motel outside Clanton.
(c) They will not be sequestered, but are not to discuss the case with anyone.
(d) In the Clanton Inn on Main Street.

2. Why does Jake recognize Gerald Ault as a supporter of black people?
(a) Ault was rescued as a boy from drowning by a black person.
(b) Although a secret few knew, Ault's first girlfriend was black.
(c) Ault was raised by a black "nanny" until he was in his early teens.
(d) Ault was rescued as a boy from a burning building by a black person.

3. The night of Stump Sisson's death, the KKK meet in the woods, pledge revenge, and induct how many new Klan members from Ford County?
(a) 6.
(b) 7.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

4. Jake Brigance advises deputies that Billy Ray Cobb could receive life plus 40 years if he is convicted on all charges, and could be paroled how soon if Tonya lives?
(a) No parole.
(b) 25 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 13 years.

5. Several days following his being rehired by Carl Lee, Jake is summoned to Lucien's home to meet whom?
(a) Dr. W.T. Bass, retired psychiatrist.
(b) Dr. W.T. Bass, retired pediatrician.
(c) Dr. W.T. Bass, retired podiatrist.
(d) Dr. W.T. Bass, retired psychologist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jake threaten to fire his secretary Ethel?

2. What are the bored jurors doing by the evening of the third day after the phones have been removed from their rooms?

3. Why does Jake decide to stay out of the Coffee Shop?

4. How does Deputy Looney describe Carl Lee?

5. When the phone rings while Harry Rex and Jake are discussing legal matters on the morning before the trial, what happens?

(see the answer key)

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