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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 43.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Deputy Nesbit take Ellen to sleep the night before the trial opens?
(a) The Clanton Inn.
(b) The Sheriff's Departmment.
(c) Lucien's.
(d) She stays at Jakes office suite.

2. How does Carla learn about the all-white jurors in the case?
(a) She learns about them during a TV newsbroadcast.
(b) She reads about them in the newspaper.
(c) She hears about them during a radio news broadcast.
(d) She learns about them during a phone call with Jake.

3. What happens when Jake calls Lester in Chicago?
(a) Lester agrees to return to Clanton with little prompting.
(b) Lester agrees to return to Clanton with much prompting.
(c) Lester says he cannot return until the trial.
(d) Lester agrees to come back, but not soon.

4. As thousands of black protesters congregate outside the courthouse and the jury assembles, Foreman Acker reflects on what?
(a) How many others had, like him, been threatened.
(b) Where the thugs who jumped him are from.
(c) How the other members of the jury will be voting.
(d) If he should report the threat to Sheriff Walls.

5. What three individuals were aware of what would likely take place, so the double murder does not surprise them?
(a) Ozzie Walls, K.T. "Cat" Bruster, Deputy Looney.
(b) Carla Brigance, Pete Willard, Billy Ray Cobb.
(c) Lester Hailey, Jake Brigance, Judge Bullard.
(d) Ozzie Walls, Jake Brigance, Carl Lee Hailey.

Short Answer Questions

1. On Monday, during the fifteen minute recess after Rodeheaver's testimony, Jake runs up to the law library where Harry Rex is already, and he assures Jake of what?

2. When does Agee agree to get the "love offering" funds for the Hailey family to Gwen?

3. 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?

4. After her refusal to give the juror list to Jake, what does Jean Gillespie do when he reminds her of previously helping with her family and her reelection?

5. What are the six capital defense attorneys of the NAACP known as?

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