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

2. Jake knows Judge Noose will feel how about the National Guard being called in?
(a) Wishing he had been consulted, but not upset.
(b) Furious that he was not consulted.
(c) Understanding it is the mayor's job to ensure city safety, not the judge's.
(d) Glad that another measure to ensure safety was taken.

3. 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?
(a) Lucien is right, someone got to Judge Noose.
(b) It is going to be a very uphill trial.
(c) He can use the refusal to change venue for a mistrial if necessary.
(d) Someone did not get to the judge, but others have been gotten to.

4. When the trial resumes following the brief recess, why does Jake decline to question Rodeheaver?
(a) He often wins arguments with experts, but is not confident this time.
(b) He has never won an argument with an expert.
(c) He rarely wins arguments with experts.
(d) He has only once won an argument with an expert.

5. When Lucien gets the opportunity to discuss Sisco's offer with Jake, what does he state the cost will be?
(a) $250,000 for a hung jury, $500,000 for an acquital.
(b) $50,000 for an acquittal is the only offer.
(c) $2,500 for a hung jury, $5,000 for an acquittal.
(d) $25,000 for a hung jury, $50,000 for an acquittal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Buckley's opening statement runs an hour and a half, and Jake's opening is how long?

2. What are the bored jurors doing by the evening of the third day after the phones have been removed from their rooms?

3. Following three hours of sleep on the morning of the trial, Jake bolts awake and has Deputy Nesbit do what?

4. 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?

5. What does Jake say to the judge after Ozzie explains what has taken place to Noose?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Harry Rex's pickup and Jake's Saab reflect more than a matter of taste, but of personality?

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

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

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

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

7. When the case is given to the jury, where do the members stand?

8. Why do the jurors feel more incarcerated than safe?

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

10. On Monday, the first morning of the trial, what positions does Jake direct Ellen and Harry Rex, his two assistants, to assume?

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