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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 Jake and Ellen are working on various issues of the case, whom do they invite to join them on the balcony of the law office?
(a) Lucien.
(b) Harry Rex.
(c) Ozzie Walls.
(d) Deputy Nesbit.

2. What question does Jake ask of Ozzie during cross-examination that Buckley wildly objects to and Jake withdraws, but Ozzie has already nodded affirmatively to?
(a) Whether either Cobb or Willard signed a confession prior to death?
(b) Whether Pete Willard signed a confession prior to his death?
(c) Did Pete Willard agree to sign a confession for leniency prior to death?
(d) Did either verbally confess prior to death?

3. As thousands of black protesters congregate outside the courthouse and the jury assembles, Foreman Acker reflects on what?
(a) Where the thugs who jumped him are from.
(b) How the other members of the jury will be voting.
(c) If he should report the threat to Sheriff Walls.
(d) How many others had, like him, been threatened.

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 was close to Willard, and had a difficult time keeping his composure.
(b) He stutters and spits in response to the questions for an hour.
(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 do Lucien, Harry Rex, and Jake go after talking with Wanda Womack and Mack Loyd Crowell?
(a) Jake's office.
(b) Lucien's.
(c) The Lake.
(d) The Hailey's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucien tell Jake regarding the summation?

2. Do the jurors and alternates attempt to discuss the case in violation of the judge's instructions?

3. 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?

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

5. At noon, when the court assembles and finds the jury has not reached a verdict, the judge advises them to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jake do on the balcony of his office after he returns from the Coffee Shop on the day the jurors deliver their verdict?

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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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