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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Lucien.
(d) Ozzie Walls.

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

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

5. 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, only Ellen's attack and no name.
(b) No paper has mentioned his house fire or Ellen's attack.
(c) He reviewed the statutes and feels Jake has a good chance at appealing.
(d) Only the Oxford paper mentioned Ellen's attack, and not her name.

6. Following three hours of sleep on the morning of the trial, Jake bolts awake and has Deputy Nesbit do what?
(a) Take him home so he can shower and shave.
(b) Has him drive him to Lucien's home where he left some documents.
(c) Take him to Ozzie to review security measures in transporting Carl Lee.
(d) Check the building out as he has heard something suspicious.

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

8. 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 coffee.
(b) Make margaritas.
(c) Make copies of the brief.
(d) Provide an overview of the issue.

9. How does Deputy Looney describe Carl Lee?
(a) "He's a killer. He's worthy of death."
(b) "It was an accident. But he deserves some prison time."
(c) "He's a hero. Give him a trophy."
(d) "For what he did, he deserves life."

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

11. 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) National Guardsmen usher them away.
(d) Deputies usher to their "turf" out front, and tell them they may stay if there is no trouble.

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

13. 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) She beats head after being covered by "Mickey Mouse," hoping for help.
(b) In the trunk, she beats head trying to summon help.
(c) In the trunk, she beats head trying to get free.
(d) Terrified she will be raped and killed, she beats head against a metal pole.

14. 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 following the exposure of Bass.
(c) They sense victory with Jake not coming to court on Friday.
(d) They sense victory with the attack on Ellen Roark.

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 Pete Willard signed a confession prior to his death?
(b) Did either verbally confess prior to 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?

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first victim to fall in the riot at the courthouse?

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

3. Who else does Jake visit in the Memphis hospital?

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

5. What does Lucien tell Jake regarding the summation?

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