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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Carla learn about the all-white jurors in the case?
(a) She learns about them during a phone call with Jake.
(b) She learns about them during a TV newsbroadcast.
(c) She hears about them during a radio news broadcast.
(d) She reads about them in the newspaper.

4. 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) Sisson family members.
(c) "Freelancers" from outside Mississippi.
(d) Jake's former clients.

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

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

7. Ellen has done a masterful job of the M'Naghten brief, summarizing what into seventy-five pages directly applicable to the Hailey trial?
(a) A century and a half of legal history.
(b) A century of legal history.
(c) A quarter century of legal history.
(d) A half century of legal history.

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

9. 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) Statutory Rape.
(c) Driving Under the Influence.
(d) Fraud.

10. 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) Did either verbally confess prior to death?
(b) Whether Pete Willard signed a confession prior to his death?
(c) Did Pete Willard agree to sign a confession for leniency prior to death?
(d) Whether either Cobb or Willard signed a confession prior to death?

11. While they await the jury's verdict from Jake's office, what does Lucien confirm as he spins tales regarding his family's heritage?
(a) Ethel is his mother.
(b) Ethel's retarded son is his half-brother.
(c) As a teen, his family paid his first love's family to move away.
(d) Ethel's daughter was Lucien's half-sister who died shortly after birth.

12. How is the riot quelled?
(a) State Troopers arrive on scene.
(b) Three deputies fire their revolvers into the air.
(c) Deputies from an adjacent county arrive on scene.
(d) Additional Ford County deputies arrive on scene.

13. As the riot erupts, what is each Klansman armed with?
(a) A knife.
(b) A handgun.
(c) A nightstick.
(d) A broken bottle.

14. How does Jake feel when a patron in the Coffee Shop notes that the black protesters must frighten the jurors?
(a) He hopes they do.
(b) He hopes there will be no further bloodshed.
(c) He is uncertain.
(d) He hopes they don't.

15. Early Sunday morning, the day before the trial opens, Jake is awakened on the law office couch by what?
(a) The telephone continuosly ringing.
(b) Large, national TV vehicles vying for best position around Clanton Square.
(c) Sounds of the National Guard taking position in Clanton Square.
(d) Ellen knocking persistently on the office door.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Murphy, the janitor, is called as a witness of the state on the afternoon of the fourth day, it is a gut-wrenching ordeal for what reason?

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

3. When the jury is impaneled, Jake, Harry Rex, and Ellen are in agreement about what?

4. Who do the Northern Mississippi black residents recognize as the single white radical NAACP attorney in their region?

5. Following Jake's closing before the jury, he and Lucien are drinking on Lucien's front porch where Deputy Nesbit helps himself to what?

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