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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where is Tonya seated in the interview with Jake and the Hailey family?
2. What have local attorneys dubbed Judge Omar Noose?
3. Days before the trial, Gwen Hailey calls Jake and informs him she is behind on house payments, the utilities might be shut off, and has only received how much from the church council?
4. Judge Omar Noose initiated his career as a mediocre lawyer but good politician who served five terms in the state legislature, and during which he developed what?
5. Where does Ellen sleep after the jury strategy session is over and Jake is followed home by Deputy Nesbit?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are the key characters depicted as selfish and self-centered in Chapter 24?
2. What sort of a lawman is Sheriff Ozzie Walls?
3. What do readers learn about Jake Brigance in Chapter 8?
4. What does the reader learn about the Ford County District Attorney in Chapter 7?
5. What sort of an attorney is Harry Rex Vonner?
6. How does K.T. "Cat" Bruster's view of truth and justice compare with Carl Lee's?
7. What is Ellen Roark's response to Jake when he quizzes her on her credentials?
8. How does John Grisham depict the events taking place in Clanton as carnival-like?
9. What is a significant plot development in Chapter 5?
10. Why does the name of Clyde Sisco cause some stir during Jake's jury strategy team session in Chapter 29?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
John Grisham utilizes the theme of the forces of good marred by flaws. For example, in Chapter 29, he depicts the earnest goodwill of the black residents in the county in their candlelight vigil before the courthouse. They are committed to justice. However, their good intent is marred by the self-serving actions of their preachers who siphon their money and drive luxury cars. Identify other ways this theme prevails throughout "A Time to Kill."
Essay Topic 2
John Grisham presents a dark story. A 10-year-old girl is beaten, urinated on, and raped by two drunk, Mississippi rednecks. She endures unreal, subsequent trauma afterward. Her father kills the perpetrators. He is placed on trial for their murders and may be killed. A "snitch" in the KKK warns local law enforcement of potential attacks, and is himself killed in retribution. A KKK leader is killed with a Molotov cocktail. Others die in Grisham's novel, "A Time to Kill." Explain what the author is referring to by his title.
Essay Topic 3
When Freddie Cobb arrives at the Ku Klux Klan meeting in Nettles County, he attempts to gain their help in retaliation for his brother's murder. How do Klan members view Billy Ray's murder? How will they accomplish this? What is the outcome of their peaceful demonstration outside the Clanton Courthouse? Examine the KKK's actions in this story, as well as the consequences.
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