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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many murder trials has Jake Brigance served as the defense counsel prior to the preliminary hearing for Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard?
(a) 2.
(b) 0.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

2. At the city's largest black church, with NAACP officials and Gwen Hailey at his side, who announces the Carl Lee Hailey defense fund?
(a) Pastor Malachi Aristotle.
(b) Pastor Oster Angel.
(c) Reverend Amos Oliver.
(d) Reverend Ollie Agee.

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

4. The Hailey indictment is not mentioned on TV until a brief 10:00 p.m. news segment, so what is Jake's response?
(a) He yells angily and tosses a sofa pillow at the TV.
(b) He does some paperwork.
(c) He orders pizza.
(d) He laughs.

5. On his way back to Mississippi, what is Lester doing?
(a) Reflecting on how he got off.
(b) Reflecting on how he will get Carl Lee to rehire Jake.
(c) Reflecting on how he can help Carl Lee pay for legal services.
(d) Reflecting on his failing marriage.

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

7. Lester Hailey has driven to Clanton from where?
(a) New York.
(b) Pittsburgh.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Atlanta.

8. What is Tonya restrained with while being raped?
(a) Electrical cord.
(b) Nylon rope.
(c) Swing-set chain.
(d) Cotton rope.

9. How does Ozzie get the bomb defused?
(a) He calls for an explosives expert at the Sheriff's Department.
(b) He handcuffs the man to the gas meter and puts the ticking case between his legs.
(c) He has the case carefully taken to a secluded section of woods.
(d) He calls for an explosives expert in the next county to be helicoptered in.

10. After being threatened by Marsharfsky, Jake does what?
(a) Lights a cheap cigar, and writes a change of venue request.
(b) Lights a cheap cigar, and writes a complaint regarding Marsharfsky.
(c) Lights an expensive Caribbean cigar, and writes a complaint regarding Marsharfsky.
(d) Lights an expensive Cuban cigar, and writes a change of venue request.

11. Carla and Jake, raised as Baptist and Methodist respectively, have agreed to become what?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Episcopalian.
(c) Lutheran.
(d) Presbyterian.

12. When Jake and Buckley are in the judge's office the day before the arraignment, what does the former request?
(a) 90 days to prepare.
(b) 60 days to prepare.
(c) 180 days to prepare.
(d) 120 days to prepare.

13. What does Ozzie do after he is tipped off three minutes after midnight on July 12 that the Brigance home is to be blown up within three hours?
(a) Awakens Jake, and instructs him to take his family to the airport.
(b) Awakens Jake, and instructs him to take up a position with his rifle.
(c) Awakens Jake, and instructs him to send his family into hiding.
(d) Ignores the tip.

14. What does Tonya, who suffers from endless nightmares and is certain that her attackers are after her, insist on?
(a) That Deputy Willie Hastings, Tonya's uncle, sit under her bedroom window.
(b) That one of her brothers sleep outside her bedroom, and the other sit under her window.
(c) That every light in the home stay on all night, and her brothers sleep outside her door.
(d) That her mother sleep with her, and her brothers sleep outside her bedroom door.

15. Lester tells Carl Lee what when he visits his cell?
(a) He needs to leave and will return when he is able.
(b) He needs to leave, but will be back for his trial.
(c) He will remain as long as is needed.
(d) He has to leave now.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ellen sleep after the jury strategy session is over and Jake is followed home by Deputy Nesbit?

2. What is Lester's local girlfriend's name, and how many children do they have?

3. After Jake tells Ethel to shut up or quit when she informs him about his $4,000 in unpaid bills, less than $1,900 in the bank, and his failure to see clients or drop off promised files, what does she do?

4. 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?

5. What do the participants chant at the rally?

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