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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As thousands of black protesters congregate outside the courthouse and the jury assembles, Foreman Acker reflects on what?
(a) Where the thugs who jumped him are from.
(b) How many others had, like him, been threatened.
(c) If he should report the threat to Sheriff Walls.
(d) How the other members of the jury will be voting.

2. 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) Bourbon.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Wine.
(d) Beer.

3. Ellen has done a fine job preparing the doctor, including a twenty-five-page dialogue of the questions Jake will ask, and the answers for whom?
(a) Dr. W. T. Bass, retired psychiatrist.
(b) Dr. W. T. Bass, retired psychologist.
(c) Dr. T. W. Bass, retired podiatrist.
(d) Dr. W. T. Blast, retired pediatrician.

4. Looking out a window at the black protesters, Barry Acker realizes a guilty verdict will bring a riot and what will transpire?
(a) They will not reach the bus safely.
(b) They will be not be injured.
(c) They will reach the vans safely.
(d) They will make it out of town with the help of additional National Guard troops.

5. Amongst some of the questions Buckley asks regarding Bass's identity, what is the crime Buckley ask Bass has been convicted of?
(a) Theft.
(b) Driving Under the Influence.
(c) Statutory Rape.
(d) Fraud.

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

7. On Saturday morning, the day after Jake was shot at, the rumor in Clanton is that the shooters claim to be whom?
(a) Klansmen.
(b) "Freelancers" from outside Mississippi.
(c) Jake's former clients.
(d) Sisson family members.

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

9. What is Wanda Womack's position?
(a) She is concerned for the safety of everyone and is not sure how to vote.
(b) She did not feel right about a guilty vote, but would if necessary.
(c) She would only vote guilty if everyone else did.
(d) She would sit until Christmas, but never give in to a guilty verdict.

10. Why is Carl Lee aghast when the jury is finally seated?
(a) It is all-white, 9 women and 3 men, only 1 black of 2 alternates.
(b) It is all-white, 10 women and 2 men, only 1 black of 2 alternates.
(c) It is all-white, 12 women and no men, only 1 black of 2 alternates.
(d) It is all-white, 11 women and 1 man, only 1 black of 2 alternates.

11. When the jury is impaneled, Jake, Harry Rex, and Ellen are in agreement about what?
(a) It is much better than expected.
(b) They are uncertain about some of the members.
(c) It is not as bad as was expected.
(d) Things do not look well.

12. At one point, talk amongst the jurors gradually leads toward a guilty verdict, based essentially on what?
(a) Carl Lee's six days of planning and premeditation.
(b) Rape being worthy of life, but not death.
(c) Carl Lee had an option to await the outcome of Cobb's and Willard's trial.
(d) Carl Lee having used an illegal firearm.

13. 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 his motion for a mistrial will be accepted.
(b) That Carl Lee can get off.
(c) That nothing worse takes place.
(d) That Dr. Bass is sober for court.

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

15. What question does Jake ask of Ozzie during cross-examination that Buckley wildly objects to and Jake withdraws, but Ozzie has already nodded affirmatively to?
(a) Whether either Cobb or Willard signed a confession prior to death?
(b) Did Pete Willard agree to sign a confession for leniency prior to death?
(c) Whether Pete Willard signed a confession prior to his death?
(d) Did either verbally confess prior to death?

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jake recognize Gerald Ault as a supporter of black people?

2. When a juror is jumped by thugs at the Temple Inn, how is he threatened?

3. When Jake has Ellen focus on Dr. Wilbert Rodeheaver, the state's mental expert, he asks her to center on cases where acquittals resulted because he suspects what?

4. When Jake addresses the jury, what does he first apologize for?

5. Ellen has done a masterful job of the M'Naghten brief, summarizing what into seventy-five pages directly applicable to the Hailey trial?

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