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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the Mississippi Imperial Wizard of the Klan speaks from the podium, there are 40 Klansmen marching at the courthouse and how many black people?
(a) Black people outnumber the Klan 10-1.
(b) Black people outnumber the Klan 5-1.
(c) Black people outnumber the Klan 2-1.
(d) Black people outnumber the Klan 15-1.

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

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

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

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

6. Who else does Jake visit in the Memphis hospital?
(a) Wallie Macintyre, the National Guardsman.
(b) Woody Mackenvale, the National Guardsman.
(c) Willie MacKenzie, the National Guardsman.
(d) Wayne Miller, the National Guardsman.

7. Why is Lucien furious on the morning of the shooting attempt to kill Jake?
(a) He has kept Dr. Bass sober all night and his testimony will be postponed.
(b) The National Guard did not check out the silo amongst other locations.
(c) That someone has attempted to take Jake's life.
(d) The National Guard colonel waited before senting someone to check.

8. The night of Stump Sisson's death, the KKK meet in the woods, pledge revenge, and induct how many new Klan members from Ford County?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

9. What does Jake say to the judge after Ozzie explains what has taken place to Noose?
(a) He will not be in today, he will be drunk by afternoon, and he will be in Saturday.
(b) He will be in this afternoon, not this morning.
(c) He will be in as soon as he showers, changes, and the area is secured.
(d) He will be in, but not for an hour, as he needs to shower and change.

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. What happens to Ellen on her way to Oxford on the evening of the shooting?
(a) She is intentionally run off the road by a pickup truck.
(b) She has a motor vehicle accident.
(c) She is pulled over by a vehicle with flashing blue lights.
(d) She is intentionally run off the road by a sedan.

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

13. 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 half century of legal history.
(c) A quarter century of legal history.
(d) A century of legal history.

14. When the word gets out that the jury is ready, what does Reverend Agee do with the demonstrators?
(a) Calls them to order, and has them sing "We Shall Overcome" calmly.
(b) Stirs the demonstrators, and has them chant "Free Carl Lee."
(c) He calms them to order, and has them pray for an acquittal.
(d) Attempts to calm the demonstrators with no success.

15. When Jake seeks a change of venue from Judge Noose and is told nothing would be done except removing 20 intimidated jurors, Jake learns what?
(a) Lucien is right, someone got to Judge Noose.
(b) Someone did not get to the judge, but others have been gotten to.
(c) He can use the refusal to change venue for a mistrial if necessary.
(d) It is going to be a very uphill trial.

Short Answer Questions

1. While the trio is at lunch on the day of opening statements, and Jake is in the restroom, Ellen describes Jake as the best she has seen, but qualifies that view how?

2. What are the bored jurors doing by the evening of the third day after the phones have been removed from their rooms?

3. 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?

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

5. The firebomb that ignites Mississippi KKK Imperial Wizard Stump Sisson is thrown from where?.

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