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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. What is Carla's reply when Jake asks her if she would convict Carl Lee Hailey for murdering Billy Ray Cobb if she were a jury member?
(a) It would be hard to convict.
(b) She could not convict.
(c) She would have to convict of a lesser charge.
(d) She would have to convict.

2. Carla and Jake, raised as Baptist and Methodist respectively, have agreed to become what?
(a) Lutheran.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Episcopalian.
(d) Presbyterian.

3. What happens when Jake calls Lester in Chicago?
(a) Lester agrees to return to Clanton with little prompting.
(b) Lester agrees to return to Clanton with much prompting.
(c) Lester says he cannot return until the trial.
(d) Lester agrees to come back, but not soon.

4. Who is Jake's favorite waitress at the Coffee Shop?
(a) Susie Lynn.
(b) Darlene.
(c) Dell.
(d) Lisa.

5. According to Judge Noose, what is the largest media problem?
(a) Two attorneys squabbling publically.
(b) Lawyers refusing to be interviewed.
(c) Two attorneys fighting for the same spotlight.
(d) Attorneys revealing too much information.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lester tells Carl Lee what when he visits his cell?

2. How is Ford County Sheriff viewed by the local citizenry?

3. Why does Jake decide to stay out of the Coffee Shop?

4. What does Tonya, who suffers from endless nightmares and is certain that her attackers are after her, insist on?

5. When Jake and Buckley are in the judge's office the day before the arraignment, what does the former request?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sort of a lawyer is Jake Brigance?

2. How does John Grisham depict the events taking place in Clanton as carnival-like?

3. What are some Jake's unethical practices?

4. What sort of an attorney is Harry Rex Vonner?

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

6. In Chapter 10, what does Lucien advise Jake his best courses of action are in Carl Lee's defense?

7. How are the key characters depicted as selfish and self-centered in Chapter 24?

8. What are the positions taken by Jake and Carla when he suggests he will contact Lester, Carl Lee's brother, after the latter fires him?

9. What observations on the part of Jake's secretary irritate him to the point he advises her to keep quiet or quit?

10. What does the reader learn in the dialogue between Carl Lee Hailey and Jake Brigance in Chapter 4?

(see the answer keys)

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