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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Deep in the woods of Durham County, 125 miles northeast of Clanton.
(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) In a barn on an abandoned farm, 20 miles outside Vicksburg.

2. Why does Jake threaten to fire his secretary Ethel?
(a) She has brought individuals to his office before advising of their presence.
(b) She has allowed someone to await his return in his office.
(c) She has allowed calls to come to his office phone before 8:30 a.m.
(d) She has repeatedly been late to work and taken long lunch breaks.

3. When the phone rings while Harry Rex and Jake are discussing legal matters on the morning before the trial, what happens?
(a) Jake answers the call and advises the caller the line is tapped.
(b) Jake ignores it, allowing it to ring before it finally stops.
(c) Jake angrily responds to a hate call and slams the phone down.
(d) Harry Rex humorously deflects a hate call aimed at Jake.

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

5. During the meeting of Jake's jury strategy team, what do the black citizens do?
(a) Maintain a candlelight vigil surrounding the jail.
(b) Maintain a candlelight vigil surrounding the courthouse and jail.
(c) Maintain a candlelight vigil surrounding the courthouse.
(d) Maintain a prayer vigil at local black churches.

Short Answer Questions

1. After going to the lake with Harry Rex, Jake visits Lucien and discovers what?

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. What questions does Jake ask of Cobb's and Willard's respective mothers during cross-examination?

4. When a juror is jumped by thugs at the Temple Inn, how is he threatened?

5. When Lucien Wilbanks inherited the family law firm in 1965, what does he keep?

(see the answer key)

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