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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. Where is Tonya seated in the interview with Jake and the Hailey family?
(a) She is afraid and is not present.
(b) Seated in her mama's lap.
(c) Seated in her Uncle Lester's lap.
(d) Seated in her daddy's lap.

2. When Jake Brigance confides in Sheriff Walls that Carl Lee Hailey may be planning the murder of Cobb and Willard, what do they speculate about how they might feel?
(a) That they might entertain murder.
(b) That they would carefully follow the trial.
(c) That they would move so their daughters could start over.
(d) That they would not allow their daughters to testify.

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

4. On his way back to Mississippi, what is Lester doing?
(a) Reflecting on how he will get Carl Lee to rehire Jake.
(b) Reflecting on his failing marriage.
(c) Reflecting on how he got off.
(d) Reflecting on how he can help Carl Lee pay for legal services.

5. How does Carl Lee compare killing the white men who raped his daughter with killing the "gooks" in Vietnam?
(a) He feels worse about the killing in Vietnam.
(b) He regrets the killing in Clanton.
(c) He feels worse about the killing in Mississippi.
(d) He feels killing both situations were equally necessary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tonya restrained with while being raped?

2. Lester Hailey has driven to Clanton from where?

3. When does Agee agree to get the "love offering" funds for the Hailey family to Gwen?

4. Several days following his being rehired by Carl Lee, Jake is summoned to Lucien's home to meet whom?

5. A convoy of how many buses carrying elderly blacks converge at the courthouse where Reverend Agee is holding a rally?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are some Jake's unethical practices?

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

4. What sort of a lawman is Sheriff Ozzie Walls?

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

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

7. What is Ellen Roark's response to Jake when he quizzes her on her credentials?

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

9. Why does a convoy of buses enter Clanton?

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

(see the answer keys)

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