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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. 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 2-1.
(c) Black people outnumber the Klan 5-1.
(d) Black people outnumber the Klan 15-1.

2. How is the riot quelled?
(a) Additional Ford County deputies arrive on scene.
(b) Three deputies fire their revolvers into the air.
(c) State Troopers arrive on scene.
(d) Deputies from an adjacent county arrive on scene.

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

4. Where does Reverend Agee spend his time during the trial?
(a) Running demonstrations.
(b) Giving sermons outside court.
(c) Seated behind Hailey's.
(d) Split between being seated in the row behind the Hailey's, and running demonstrations.

5. How does Carla learn about the all-white jurors in the case?
(a) She learns about them during a TV newsbroadcast.
(b) She reads about them in the newspaper.
(c) She hears about them during a radio news broadcast.
(d) She learns about them during a phone call with Jake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who aids Ellen following her plight?

2. Why is Lucien furious on the morning of the shooting attempt to kill Jake?

3. When the trial resumes following the brief recess, why does Jake decline to question Rodeheaver?

4. Why is Carl Lee aghast when the jury is finally seated?

5. On day two of the proceedings, how does the morning begin and where are all the "players" situated?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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