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

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

3. Who is Rocky Childers?
(a) Tavern owner.
(b) Ford County Judge.
(c) Ford County Sheriff.
(d) Ford County Prosecutor.

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

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

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 does the NAACP initially contribute toward the defense of Carl Lee?

3. Besides getting names and addresses, what does the Ku Klux Klan advise Freddie Cobb he must do to participate?

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

5. How does Ozzie get the bomb defused?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Judge Noose impose a gag order?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What illegal methods does Ozzie employ to gain information from the suspected bomber?

8. What do readers learn about Jake Brigance in Chapter 8?

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

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

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