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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. Who do the Northern Mississippi black residents recognize as the single white radical NAACP attorney in their region?
(a) Lucien Wilbanks.
(b) Norman Reinfeld.
(c) Sheldon Roark.
(d) Jake Brigance.

2. As the Mississippi Imperial Wizard of the Klan speaks from the podium, there are 40 Klansmen marching at the courthouse and how many black people?
(a) Black people outnumber the Klan 10-1.
(b) Black people outnumber the Klan 15-1.
(c) Black people outnumber the Klan 5-1.
(d) Black people outnumber the Klan 2-1.

3. Following three hours of sleep on the morning of the trial, Jake bolts awake and has Deputy Nesbit do what?
(a) Check the building out as he has heard something suspicious.
(b) Has him drive him to Lucien's home where he left some documents.
(c) Take him home so he can shower and shave.
(d) Take him to Ozzie to review security measures in transporting Carl Lee.

4. When Jake addresses the jury, what does he first apologize for?
(a) Dr. Bass.
(b) Their having to be sequestered.
(c) His inability to be at court on Friday.
(d) His mistakes due to inexperience.

5. Back at his office, what does Jake drink while his friends drink margaritas?
(a) Bourbon.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Margaritas.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Jake objects as Lucien broaches the topic of buying a jury, the latter reminds him of what?

2. When the jury is impaneled, Jake, Harry Rex, and Ellen are in agreement about what?

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

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?

5. When the jurors arrive the next morning for further deliberation, how are they taken from the bus to the courthouse?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do Buckley's and Jake's approaches differ?

4. What transpires when Jake requests a change of venue in chambers on Monday, the first day of court?

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

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

7. What happens when Jake requests a change of venue from Judge Noose following the riot and cross-burnings?

8. What transpires when Clyde Acker walks for a cola at the Temple Inn?

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

10. Upon arrival at the hospital to visit Ellen following the Ku Klux Klan attack, how does her father describe to Jake and Harry Rex the way she incurred injuries to the head requiring thirty-nine stitches?

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