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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Jake addresses the jury, what does he first apologize for?
(a) Dr. Bass.
(b) Their having to be sequestered.
(c) His inability to be at court on Friday.
(d) His mistakes due to inexperience.

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

4. 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 is uncertain.
(c) He hopes they don't.
(d) He hopes there will be no further bloodshed.

5. When the trial resumes following the brief recess, why does Jake decline to question Rodeheaver?
(a) He has never won an argument with an expert.
(b) He often wins arguments with experts, but is not confident this time.
(c) He has only once won an argument with an expert.
(d) He rarely wins arguments with experts.

6. Why does Jake recognize Gerald Ault as a supporter of black people?
(a) Ault was raised by a black "nanny" until he was in his early teens.
(b) Ault was rescued as a boy from drowning by a black person.
(c) Ault was rescued as a boy from a burning building by a black person.
(d) Although a secret few knew, Ault's first girlfriend was black.

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

8. What happens when Carl Lee opens a courtroom window with a small balcony and the deputy nods?
(a) Carl Lee, Tonya, and the boys step onto the balcony, wave, and the crowd surges.
(b) Carl Lee steps onto the balcony, and can see KKK on their "turf."
(c) Carl Lee steps onto the balcony, waves, and the crowd surges.
(d) Carl Lee has second thoughts for safety, and watches inside from the window.

9. Given the National Guard activity the day prior to the trial opening, Jake advises Ellen he will be forced to renew his plea for change of venue, ask for a mistrial, and then be certain of what?
(a) Judge Noose is clearly not taking an impartial position.
(b) The record shows that the trial is being held in "a three-ring circus."
(c) A fair trial is not being held.
(d) The trial is being held in violation of Mississippi State Statues.

10. How many black people does Lucien plan to bring to the courthouse and chant "Free Carl Lee"?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 2,500.

11. Do the jurors and alternates attempt to discuss the case in violation of the judge's instructions?
(a) Yes, on a pay-phone in the Temple Inn lobby to family.
(b) Yes, in same-sex pairs while roomed at the Temple Inn.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, on the bus enroute to the Temple Inn.

12. 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?
(a) "Considering his law school."
(b) "Considering how nervous he is."
(c) "Given his experience."
(d) "For his age."

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

14. What does Jake say to the judge after Ozzie explains what has taken place to Noose?
(a) He will be in, but not for an hour, as he needs to shower and change.
(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 not be in today, he will be drunk by afternoon, and he will be in Saturday.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Buckley's opening statement runs an hour and a half, and Jake's opening is how long?

2. Why do Jake and Harry Rex go to the lake in the latter's pickup truck rather than the former's Saab after going to Memphis to visit the hospital?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. On day two of the proceedings, how does the morning begin and where are all the "players" situated?

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