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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lucien's advice to Jake regarding fear?
(a) Take a healty shot of bourbon to calm his nerves.
(b) Jake has prepared well, and so he need not worry.
(c) He should welcome it, as jurors are afraid as well.
(d) Put it out of his mind and concentrate on legal matters.

2. On Monday, during the fifteen minute recess after Rodeheaver's testimony, Jake runs up to the law library where Harry Rex is already, and he assures Jake of what?
(a) No paper has mentioned his house fire or Ellen's attack.
(b) Only the Oxford paper mentioned Ellen's attack, and not her name.
(c) No paper has mentioned his house fire, only Ellen's attack and no name.
(d) He reviewed the statutes and feels Jake has a good chance at appealing.

3. What happens to Ellen on her way to Oxford on the evening of the shooting?
(a) She is pulled over by a vehicle with flashing blue lights.
(b) She is intentionally run off the road by a sedan.
(c) She has a motor vehicle accident.
(d) She is intentionally run off the road by a pickup truck.

4. Who else does Jake visit in the Memphis hospital?
(a) Wayne Miller, the National Guardsman.
(b) Willie MacKenzie, the National Guardsman.
(c) Woody Mackenvale, the National Guardsman.
(d) Wallie Macintyre, the National Guardsman.

5. On the evening before the trial begins, Ellen arrives at Jake's office suite carrying a thick, professional brief regarding the rape admissibility issue and begins to do what?
(a) Make margaritas.
(b) Make copies of the brief.
(c) Provide an overview of the issue.
(d) Make coffee.

6. Who does Jake learn Wanda Womack lives with?
(a) Willie Hastings.
(b) Clyde Sisco.
(c) Mack Loyd Crowell.
(d) Percy Bullard.

7. While Jake and Ellen are working on various issues of the case, whom do they invite to join them on the balcony of the law office?
(a) Harry Rex.
(b) Deputy Nesbit.
(c) Ozzie Walls.
(d) Lucien.

8. After going to the lake with Harry Rex, Jake visits Lucien and discovers what?
(a) Lucien is passed out, but has nearly finished Jake's summation.
(b) Lucien has been drinking and working on Jake's summation.
(c) Lucien is sober and working on Jake's summation.
(d) Lucien is drunk and is working on Jake's summation.

9. When Jake and Harry Rex arrive at the Memphis hospital to visit Ellen, her father, Sheldon Roark, explains what about the injuries to her head that required thirty-nine stitches?
(a) Terrified she will be raped and killed, she beats head against a metal pole.
(b) In the trunk, she beats head trying to summon help.
(c) She beats head after being covered by "Mickey Mouse," hoping for help.
(d) In the trunk, she beats head trying to get free.

10. Some of the patrons in the Coffee Shop speculate what about a reporter from the Channel 4 News?
(a) The source of her information.
(b) If she will report anything positive about Clanton.
(c) The makeup she is wearing.
(d) Where she received her training.

11. On Monday morning, Clanton is in "trial mode" as the Klan is happy having burned down Jake's home and what else?
(a) They sense victoy with the all-white jury.
(b) They sense victory with the attack on Ellen Roark.
(c) They sense victory with Jake not coming to court on Friday.
(d) They sense victory following the exposure of Bass.

12. Who aids Ellen following her plight?
(a) Deputy Nesbitt.
(b) Ozzie.
(c) Jake.
(d) "Mickey Mouse."

13. What questions does Jake ask of Cobb's and Willard's respective mothers during cross-examination?
(a) How many convictions did their sons have respectively?
(b) Jake opted not to cross-examine.
(c) Has either been convicted of rape?
(d) How many other children their sons raped, was Cobb convicted of selling marijuana?

14. Who is the first victim to fall in the riot at the courthouse?
(a) Freddie Cobb.
(b) Ozzie Walls.
(c) Reverend Agee.
(d) Lester Hailey.

15. What is Clyde Sisco's price?
(a) $50,000.
(b) $5,000
(c) $500.
(d) $500,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Deputy Looney describe Carl Lee?

2. On Friday, day five of the trial, Ozzie and Deputy Nesbit wake Jake before 5:00 a.m. to inform him "Mickey Mouse" has reported what?

3. As the riot erupts, what is each Klansman armed with?

4. In questioning jurors individually in chambers as to their position on the death penalty, one black male lies and is allowed to remain, and he later does what?

5. Where does Deputy Nesbit take Ellen to sleep the night before the trial opens?

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