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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. Subsequent to Bass's testimony, what does Jake do when the lawyers are summoned to the judge's chambers?
(a) Grabs a shot of bourbon from Lucien's pocket flask.
(b) Passes Carl Lee without being able to look at him.
(c) Has Harry Rex go back to the office and grab a file.
(d) Stops in a restroom enroute and vomits.

5. What does Jake not tell Carla about in his hour long phone conversation with her Sunday, the evening of the day he returns from Memphis with Harry Rex?
(a) The attack against Ellen.
(b) That the National Guardsman is paralyzed.
(c) That things look very bad.
(d) The house burning.

6. When the jurors arrive the next morning for further deliberation, how are they taken from the bus to the courthouse?
(a) By National Guardsmen through the crowd.
(b) By deputies through the crowd.
(c) By Ozzie and National Guardsmen through the crowd.
(d) Through a back entrance using two vans instead of a bus.

7. 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 reach the vans safely.
(b) They will make it out of town with the help of additional National Guard troops.
(c) They will not reach the bus safely.
(d) They will be not be injured.

8. When two dozen Klansmen arrive on the first morning of the trial in full regalia, what happens?
(a) They are advised by Sheriff Walls that they may stay, but not if hooded.
(b) They are instructed they may only stay without KKK regalia.
(c) Deputies usher to their "turf" out front, and tell them they may stay if there is no trouble.
(d) National Guardsmen usher them away.

9. 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.

10. How does Hinky Myrick raise money during the Carl Lee trial?
(a) Selling sandwiches, plate lunches at exhorbitant prices on the front lawn.
(b) Selling sandwiches and plate lunches at exhorbitant prices in the courtroom.
(c) Selling sandwiches and plate lunches at cheap prices to the National Guard.
(d) Selling sandwiches, plate lunches at reasonable prices to media outdoors.

11. What does Wanda Womack ask the jury panel to consider to convince them to rule not guilty by reason of insanity?
(a) Consider what the crowd outside will do if he is found guilty.
(b) Consider true justice for a father, not the legal system.
(c) Imagine Tonya as a white girl attacked by two drunk black men.
(d) Consider their reaction if their daughter was attacked and beaten.

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

13. When a juror is jumped by thugs at the Temple Inn, how is he threatened?
(a) One house has burned; his family's could too if there is no conviction.
(b) At knifepoint; they know where his family is if there is no conviction.
(c) At knifepoint; he will watch his family die if there is no conviction.
(d) At gunpoint; they know where his family is if there is no conviction.

14. On day two of the proceedings, how does the morning begin and where are all the "players" situated?
(a) Drizzling and warm, with many diligently taking places on the front lawn.
(b) Hot and sunny, with all diligently taking places on the front lawn.
(c) Muggy and overcast, with some diligently taking places on the front lawn.
(d) Breezy, with even more than before taking spots on the front lawn.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Lucien, Harry Rex, and Jake go after talking with Wanda Womack and Mack Loyd Crowell?

2. How does Carla learn about the all-white jurors in the case?

3. Early Sunday morning, the day before the trial opens, Jake is awakened on the law office couch by what?

4. 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?

5. What questions does Jake ask of Cobb's and Willard's respective mothers during cross-examination?

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