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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. Besides getting names and addresses, what does the Ku Klux Klan advise Freddie Cobb he must do to participate?
(a) Join the KKK.
(b) Join the KKK and participate in the lynching of a black person.
(c) Recruit 2 additional members and join the KKK.
(d) Recruit 5 or 6 members and join the KKK.

2. 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 would have to convict.
(c) She could not convict.
(d) She would have to convict of a lesser charge.

3. A convoy of how many buses carrying elderly blacks converge at the courthouse where Reverend Agee is holding a rally?
(a) 42.
(b) 27.
(c) 31.
(d) 22.

4. Norman Reinfeld, the thirty-year-old Jewish supervisor of the NAACP defense team, graduated from which law school?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

5. What is Lester's local girlfriend's name, and how many children do they have?
(a) Iris, 1.
(b) Champagne, 1.
(c) Frances, 1.
(d) Iris, 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How much has Jake been paid by Lester Hailey prior to the indictment?

3. Why does Carl Lee fire Jake?

4. On the day before Carl Lee's preliminary hearing, Jake, knowing the grand jurors are not yet selected and will likely see this news broadcast on TV that evening, reminds interviewers of what?

5. Why does Lucien advise Jake he needs to seek a change of venue?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Billy Ray Cobb's brother, Freddie, approach in seeking revenge, and what is the result?

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

3. What sort of a lawyer is Jake Brigance?

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

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

6. What are some Jake's unethical practices?

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

8. How does Rufus Buckley make use of the illegally-obtained jury list?

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

10. How does K.T. "Cat" Bruster's view of truth and justice compare with Carl Lee's?

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