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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has previously witnessed a KKK march in Clanton?
(a) Those alive in the 30's.
(b) Only some very elderly.
(c) No one now alive.
(d) One march in the very early 60's.

2. How does Carl Lee compare killing the white men who raped his daughter with killing the "gooks" in Vietnam?
(a) He feels killing both situations were equally necessary.
(b) He feels worse about the killing in Vietnam.
(c) He feels worse about the killing in Mississippi.
(d) He regrets the killing in Clanton.

3. What are the six capital defense attorneys of the NAACP known as?
(a) The "death squad."
(b) The "last chance squad."
(c) The "always win team."
(d) The "defense squad."

4. At one point, talk amongst the jurors gradually leads toward a guilty verdict, based essentially on what?
(a) Rape being worthy of life, but not death.
(b) Carl Lee's six days of planning and premeditation.
(c) Carl Lee having used an illegal firearm.
(d) Carl Lee had an option to await the outcome of Cobb's and Willard's trial.

5. Norman Reinfeld, the thirty-year-old Jewish supervisor of the NAACP defense team, graduated from which law school?
(a) Yale.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Princeton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Judge Bullard do to calm his nerves?

2. Who likely holds the outcome of the Carl Lee trial in the palm of his hand?

3. Sheriff Walls is concerned about Carl Lee's safety and comes up with what plan for transporting him to the courthouse on the day of his preliminary hearing?

4. During their picnic, what is Carl Lee's response when Gwen questions him about his commitment to bring in a few hundred dollars to make ends meet?

5. When the trial resumes following the brief recess, why does Jake decline to question Rodeheaver?

(see the answer key)

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