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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 does Jake not tell Carla about in his hour long phone conversation with her Sunday, the evening of the day he returns from Memphis with Harry Rex?
(a) That the National Guardsman is paralyzed.
(b) That things look very bad.
(c) The house burning.
(d) The attack against Ellen.

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

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

4. Who does Jake learn Wanda Womack lives with?
(a) Clyde Sisco.
(b) Percy Bullard.
(c) Mack Loyd Crowell.
(d) Willie Hastings.

5. Why do Jake and Harry Rex go to the lake in the latter's pickup truck rather than the former's Saab after going to Memphis to visit the hospital?
(a) They fear the Saab would be a target.
(b) Jake has let Carla use it to drive to the airport.
(c) The Saab is having mechanical work done.
(d) Carla used the Saab to drive to Wilmington, and hers is now burned.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Lucien, Harry Rex, and Jake go after talking with Wanda Womack and Mack Loyd Crowell?

2. When Jake seeks a change of venue from Judge Noose and is told nothing would be done except removing 20 intimidated jurors, Jake learns what?

3. The night of Stump Sisson's death, the KKK meet in the woods, pledge revenge, and induct how many new Klan members from Ford County?

4. During the closing statement to the jury, what does Jake say that must be withdrawn?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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. How is Jake's closing argument indicative of it being his finest hour?

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

8. Why is Lucien able to draw thousands of black residents from northern Mississippi to Clanton to demonstrate on behalf of Carl Lee?

9. Shortly after midnight, following the riot in the courthouse square, what do five teams of the KKK do?

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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