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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) Seated in her mama's lap.
(b) Seated in her daddy's lap.
(c) She is afraid and is not present.
(d) Seated in her Uncle Lester's lap.

2. What is the temperature at Reverend Agee's rally?
(a) 70 degrees.
(b) 90 degrees.
(c) 80 degrees.
(d) 100 degrees.

3. The Sunday after Jake gets fired, he and Carla skip church and take Hanna where?
(a) On a picnic.
(b) Kite flying.
(c) Canoeing.
(d) To a zoo.

4. Where does Ellen sleep after the jury strategy session is over and Jake is followed home by Deputy Nesbit?
(a) In a motor lodge.
(b) In the Clanton Inn.
(c) With a friend of Jake and Carla.
(d) On the office couch.

5. What do the participants chant at the rally?
(a) "Free Carl Lee."
(b) "We will overcome."
(c) "Amazing grace."
(d) "We want a just trial."

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does the preliminary hearing for Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard last?

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?

3. When Bo Marsharfsky calls requesting Jake to be his local associate, what is his response?

4. What does Carl Lee Hailey feel his chances are, now that he has been arrested and charged with two counts of murder?

5. Carla and Jake, raised as Baptist and Methodist respectively, have agreed to become what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sort of a lawyer is Jake Brigance?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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