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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the other prisoners feel about Carl Lee taking meals with the sheriff?
(a) Hateful.
(b) Jealous.
(c) Terrified.
(d) Respectful.

2. When interviewed by TV journalists the day before Carl Lee's preliminary hearing, what does Jake tell them a Mississippi jury has as options when trying capital murder?
(a) Manslaughter for 20 years, capital murder for life or death, and guilty.
(b) Manslaughter for 20 years, capital murder for life or death, and not guilty.
(c) Manslaughter for 25 years, capital murder for life or death, and not guilty.
(d) Manslaughter with immediate parole, capital murder for life, and not guilty.

3. What does Jake Brigance drive?
(a) A Jaguar.
(b) A Rolls-Royce.
(c) A BMW.
(d) A Saab.

4. During one phone call to Carla shortly prior to the trial, whose situation is Jake careful not to bring up?
(a) Ozzie Walls'.
(b) Gwem Hailey's.
(c) Reverend Agee's.
(d) Bud Twitty's.

5. Ollie Agee, the Hailey's pastor, convenes the Council of Ministers, a board of the local black ministry, which decides to do what?
(a) Initiate a defense fund for Carl Lee, a support fund for his family, and bring in the NAACP.
(b) Bring in the NAACP.
(c) Initiate a fund and prayer vigil for the Hailey's.
(d) Initiate a defense fund for Carl Lee, a support fund for his family, and security for Hailey's home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who begs Sheriff Ozzie Walls to reopen the local "tonks"?

2. Judge Omar Noose initiated his career as a mediocre lawyer but good politician who served five terms in the state legislature, and during which he developed what?

3. Who is Jake's favorite waitress at the Coffee Shop?

4. What is the temperature at Reverend Agee's rally?

5. Why does the name of Clyde Sisco cause some stir during the meeting of Jake's jury strategy team?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some Jake's unethical practices?

2. Why does the name of Clyde Sisco cause some stir during Jake's jury strategy team session in Chapter 29?

3. What is a significant plot development in Chapter 5?

4. Why does John Grisham open his story with such horrific detail of the crime?

5. What is the trajectory of Judge Omar Noose's career that has led him to his current status?

6. How does Jake skillfully manipulate the media immediately following Carl Lee's arraignment?

7. What does the reader learn about the Ford County District Attorney in Chapter 7?

8. Why does Judge Noose impose a gag order?

9. In what ways does John Grisham show that Jake relishes being back on center stage once he is Carl Lee's attorney?

10. Why does a convoy of buses enter Clanton?

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