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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 questions does Jake ask of Cobb's and Willard's respective mothers during cross-examination?
(a) How many convictions did their sons have respectively?
(b) Jake opted not to cross-examine.
(c) How many other children their sons raped, was Cobb convicted of selling marijuana?
(d) Has either been convicted of rape?

2. What does Jake say to the judge after Ozzie explains what has taken place to Noose?
(a) He will be in, but not for an hour, as he needs to shower and change.
(b) He will not be in today, he will be drunk by afternoon, and he will be in Saturday.
(c) He will be in as soon as he showers, changes, and the area is secured.
(d) He will be in this afternoon, not this morning.

3. What are the bored jurors doing by the evening of the third day after the phones have been removed from their rooms?
(a) Swimming in the motel pool, reading magazines, and playing cards.
(b) Reading magazines, buying sodas from a machine, and playing cards.
(c) Cooling off in the motel pool, drinking sodas, and playing cards.
(d) Buying sodas from a machine, playing cards, and discussing the case.

4. When Murphy, the janitor, is called as a witness of the state on the afternoon of the fourth day, it is a gut-wrenching ordeal for what reason?
(a) He stutters and spits in response to the questions for an hour.
(b) He was close to Willard, and had a difficult time keeping his composure.
(c) He was close to Cobb, and had a difficult time keeping his composure.
(d) He was afraid of being questioned, and was nearly in tears for an hour.

5. Where does Deputy Nesbit take Ellen to sleep the night before the trial opens?
(a) The Sheriff's Departmment.
(b) The Clanton Inn.
(c) She stays at Jakes office suite.
(d) Lucien's.

Short Answer Questions

1. While they await the jury's verdict from Jake's office, what does Lucien confirm as he spins tales regarding his family's heritage?

2. As the riot erupts, what is each Klansman armed with?

3. On Friday, day five of the trial, Ozzie and Deputy Nesbit wake Jake before 5:00 a.m. to inform him "Mickey Mouse" has reported what?

4. What is Clyde Sisco's price?

5. When Jake and Harry Rex arrive at the Memphis hospital to visit Ellen, her father, Sheldon Roark, explains what about the injuries to her head that required thirty-nine stitches?

Short Essay Questions

1. Beyond the cost of a human life and loss for loved ones and associates, what are some of the significant ramifications of Tim Nunley's death?

2. On the second day of the trial, what happens to Gerald Ault, Jake's "ace-in-the-hole"?

3. Why is everyone relieved when Jake declines to question Murphy, the janitor, in cross-examination?

4. How does Grisham depict Jake's response to the soldier who is seriously injured for protecting him?

5. What issues did Lucien face in bringing thousands of black protesters to Clanton?

6. What does Jake when the National Guard arrive?

7. What offer does Lucien make to Jake regarding the jury that he objects to?

8. What happens when Ellen first arrives at Jake's office on the Sunday the National Guard arrives?

9. What transpires as the forty Ku Klux Klansmen arrive to demonstrate at the courthouse where the black protesters held their vigil?

10. How are the twelve jurors and two alternates sequestered?

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