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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. While they await the jury's verdict from Jake's office, what does Lucien confirm as he spins tales regarding his family's heritage?
(a) Ethel's daughter was Lucien's half-sister who died shortly after birth.
(b) As a teen, his family paid his first love's family to move away.
(c) Ethel is his mother.
(d) Ethel's retarded son is his half-brother.

2. How does Deputy Looney describe Carl Lee?
(a) "He's a hero. Give him a trophy."
(b) "For what he did, he deserves life."
(c) "He's a killer. He's worthy of death."
(d) "It was an accident. But he deserves some prison time."

3. What is the jury's decision?
(a) Guilty of manslaughter, third degree.
(b) Guilty on all counts.
(c) Guilty of homicide, second degree.
(d) Not guilty on all counts by reason of insanity.

4. On the evening before the trial begins, Ellen arrives at Jake's office suite carrying a thick, professional brief regarding the rape admissibility issue and begins to do what?
(a) Provide an overview of the issue.
(b) Make coffee.
(c) Make margaritas.
(d) Make copies of the brief.

5. At noon, when the court assembles and finds the jury has not reached a verdict, the judge advises them to do what?
(a) Take a ninety-minute lunch without deliberation.
(b) Take an hour lunch without deliberation.
(c) Skip lunch and continue deliberation.
(d) Have lunch while they continue deliberation.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the phone rings while Harry Rex and Jake are discussing legal matters on the morning before the trial, what happens?

2. Following Jake's closing before the jury, he and Lucien are drinking on Lucien's front porch where Deputy Nesbit helps himself to what?

3. What questions does Jake ask of Cobb's and Willard's respective mothers during cross-examination?

4. The firebomb that ignites Mississippi KKK Imperial Wizard Stump Sisson is thrown from where?.

5. In questioning jurors individually in chambers as to their position on the death penalty, one black male lies and is allowed to remain, and he later does what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the changes in perspective the Carl Lee Hailey trial has had on Jake?

2. Just past midnight of the day Dr. Bass was questioned, what does Jake discover when driven to his home due to an emergency?

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

4. Why is Jake essentially lost in court the day he returned after being shot at?

5. What happens on the Saturday morning when "Mickey Mouse" tips Ozzie the Klan plan a multi-state retaliation for the Thursday riot?

6. In Chapter 37, how does the consumption or abuse of alcohol come into play?

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

8. 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?

9. What happens between Jake and Ellen on the balcony of Jake's office?

10. What does the reader learn was key to the jury being swayed to finding an innocent by reason of insanity verdict?

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