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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Judge Noose, what is the largest media problem?
(a) Lawyers refusing to be interviewed.
(b) Attorneys revealing too much information.
(c) Two attorneys squabbling publically.
(d) Two attorneys fighting for the same spotlight.

2. What is the temperature at Reverend Agee's rally?
(a) 70 degrees.
(b) 100 degrees.
(c) 90 degrees.
(d) 80 degrees.

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

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

5. What do the participants chant at the rally?
(a) "Amazing grace."
(b) "Free Carl Lee."
(c) "We will overcome."
(d) "We want a just trial."

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

7. What is the reaction to the press conference?
(a) Nothing local, only in Jackson, Memphis, Atlanta and elsewhere.
(b) It is a TV news hit, and the Hailey family photo appears on the front page.
(c) Primarily on TV news, and little in the newspapers.
(d) It is a short clip on the 10:00 p.m. broadcast, and a short column with no photo in the back pages.

8. 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) Reverend Amos Oliver.
(c) Reverend Ollie Agee.
(d) Pastor Oster Angel.

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

10. What does Judge Bullard do to calm his nerves?
(a) Watches TV soaps at lunchtime.
(b) Listens to classical music.
(c) Drinks moonshine whiskey.
(d) Drinks vodka.

11. Where does Ellen sleep after the jury strategy session is over and Jake is followed home by Deputy Nesbit?
(a) On the office couch.
(b) With a friend of Jake and Carla.
(c) In the Clanton Inn.
(d) In a motor lodge.

12. How does Ozzie get the bomb defused?
(a) He handcuffs the man to the gas meter and puts the ticking case between his legs.
(b) He calls for an explosives expert at the Sheriff's Department.
(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.

13. How does Ozzie determine what is in the ticking case the stranger has brought to the front porch of of Jake's home?
(a) He threatens to shoot both of his knees.
(b) He handcuffs the man to the gas meter and places the case between his legs.
(c) Ozzie breaks both of the man's ankles.
(d) He threatens to break his ankles.

14. After Ozzie summons Jake to meet with Lester and Carl Lee and Carl Lee rehires Jake because his brother "wants me to," what does Carl Lee say?
(a) Carl Lee states the Sheriff has convinced him Jake is a good choice.
(b) Carl Lee persists he is only following Lester's request.
(c) Carl Lee states he does not trust Jake, but trusts the Shark less.
(d) Carl Lee admits he trusts Jake, and wants his services.

15. After her refusal to give the juror list to Jake, what does Jean Gillespie do when he reminds her of previously helping with her family and her reelection?
(a) Jean refuses and apologizes, but says that she has no alternative.
(b) She still refuses, and cries after Jake storms out.
(c) Jean is not concerned.
(d) Jean is sorry Jake storms out, but feels he will calm down.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Jake informs Ellen of the threats received by phone, the bombing attempt, and other dangers the job may entail, what is her response?

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

3. What does Sheriff Walls testify during the change of venue hearing?

4. Where did K.T. "Cat" Bruster lose his eye?

5. When Bo Marsharfsky calls requesting Jake to be his local associate, what is his response?

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