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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Following Jake's closing before the jury, he and Lucien are drinking on Lucien's front porch where Deputy Nesbit helps himself to what?
(a) Wine.
(b) Bourbon.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Beer.

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

3. When Jake addresses the jury, what does he first apologize for?
(a) His mistakes due to inexperience.
(b) His inability to be at court on Friday.
(c) Their having to be sequestered.
(d) Dr. Bass.

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

5. Buckley's opening statement runs an hour and a half, and Jake's opening is how long?
(a) Three quarters of an hour.
(b) Half an hour.
(c) One hour.
(d) 14 minutes.

6. What are the bored jurors doing by the evening of the third day after the phones have been removed from their rooms?
(a) Reading magazines, buying sodas from a machine, and playing cards.
(b) Cooling off in the motel pool, drinking sodas, and playing cards.
(c) Buying sodas from a machine, playing cards, and discussing the case.
(d) Swimming in the motel pool, reading magazines, and playing cards.

7. 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 Dr. Bass is sober for court.
(c) That Carl Lee can get off.
(d) That his motion for a mistrial will be accepted.

8. Where do Lucien, Harry Rex, and Jake go after talking with Wanda Womack and Mack Loyd Crowell?
(a) Lucien's.
(b) The Lake.
(c) The Hailey's.
(d) Jake's office.

9. Who likely holds the outcome of the Carl Lee trial in the palm of his hand?
(a) Noose.
(b) Lucien.
(c) Jake.
(d) The Ford County Klan leader.

10. Jake knows Judge Noose will feel how about the National Guard being called in?
(a) Furious that he was not consulted.
(b) Glad that another measure to ensure safety was taken.
(c) Wishing he had been consulted, but not upset.
(d) Understanding it is the mayor's job to ensure city safety, not the judge's.

11. 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.

12. Although Jake wished he had not worn ostrich skin boots, Lucien argues what?
(a) The jury would relate to boots.
(b) Ostrich skin boots reflected style.
(c) The boots went well with Bass's suit
(d) The boots were expensive and showed class.

13. Back at his office, what does Jake drink while his friends drink margaritas?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Margaritas.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Bourbon.

14. Who has previously witnessed a KKK march in Clanton?
(a) No one now alive.
(b) Only some very elderly.
(c) One march in the very early 60's.
(d) Those alive in the 30's.

15. Despite the urging of his friends, Jake is determined to do what?
(a) Fly to be with Carla and Hanna.
(b) Stay in town a few days while he has the media in palm of his hands.
(c) Take time off to be by himself to think things out.
(d) Go to see Ellen Roark and Woody Maclenvale.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the word gets out that the jury is ready, what does Reverend Agee do with the demonstrators?

2. What is Lucien's advice to Jake regarding fear?

3. At one point, talk amongst the jurors gradually leads toward a guilty verdict, based essentially on what?

4. Ministers start a parade of black protesters behind a fifteen-foot banner that reads what?

5. Some of the patrons in the Coffee Shop speculate what about a reporter from the Channel 4 News?

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