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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hinky Myrick raise money during the Carl Lee trial?
(a) Selling sandwiches, plate lunches at exhorbitant prices on the front lawn.
(b) Selling sandwiches, plate lunches at reasonable prices to media outdoors.
(c) Selling sandwiches and plate lunches at exhorbitant prices in the courtroom.
(d) Selling sandwiches and plate lunches at cheap prices to the National Guard.

2. Why does Carl Lee fire Jake?
(a) Jake could not get him out on bond.
(b) He has an argument with Jake.
(c) Carla has received more threats and asks him to.
(d) Cat Bruster convinces him to do so.

3. When the trial resumes following the brief recess, why does Jake decline to question Rodeheaver?
(a) He often wins arguments with experts, but is not confident this time.
(b) He has only once won an argument with an expert.
(c) He has never won an argument with an expert.
(d) He rarely wins arguments with experts.

4. Do the jurors and alternates attempt to discuss the case in violation of the judge's instructions?
(a) Yes, on the bus enroute to the Temple Inn.
(b) Yes, on a pay-phone in the Temple Inn lobby to family.
(c) Yes, in same-sex pairs while roomed at the Temple Inn.
(d) No.

5. What does Jake not tell Carla about in his hour long phone conversation with her Sunday, the evening of the day he returns from Memphis with Harry Rex?
(a) The attack against Ellen.
(b) The house burning.
(c) That things look very bad.
(d) That the National Guardsman is paralyzed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Subsequent to Bass's testimony, what does Jake do when the lawyers are summoned to the judge's chambers?

2. What happens to Ellen on her way to Oxford on the evening of the shooting?

3. How long does it take Sheriff Ozzie Walls to obtain arrest warrants for Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard?

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

5. Looking out a window at the black protesters, Barry Acker realizes a guilty verdict will bring a riot and what will transpire?

(see the answer key)

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