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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Sunday after Jake gets fired, he and Carla skip church and take Hanna where?
(a) On a picnic.
(b) Canoeing.
(c) Kite flying.
(d) To a zoo.

3. How long does it take Sheriff Ozzie Walls to obtain arrest warrants for Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard?
(a) 12 hours.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 1 day.
(d) 20 minutes.

4. 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 nothing worse takes place.
(b) That his motion for a mistrial will be accepted.
(c) That Dr. Bass is sober for court.
(d) That Carl Lee can get off.

5. What have local attorneys dubbed Judge Omar Noose?
(a) Mickey Mouse.
(b) Yogi Bear.
(c) Abe Lincoln.
(d) Ichabod.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Jake and Buckley are in the judge's office the day before the arraignment, what does the former request?

2. Following Carl Lee's preliminary hearing, what does Jake attempt to do in the interview with New York Times reporter McKittrick?

3. Amongst some of the questions Buckley asks regarding Bass's identity, what is the crime Buckley ask Bass has been convicted of?

4. Who is the first victim to fall in the riot at the courthouse?

5. How many murder trials has Jake Brigance served as the defense counsel prior to the preliminary hearing for Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard?

(see the answer key)

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