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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 do Rufus Buckley's political ambitions lead him to?
2. The Sunday after Jake gets fired, he and Carla skip church and take Hanna where?
3. When Jake Brigance confides in Sheriff Walls that Carl Lee Hailey may be planning the murder of Cobb and Willard, what do they speculate about how they might feel?
4. Who is Rocky Childers?
5. What does Jake Brigance drive?
Short Essay Questions
1. What sort of an attorney is Harry Rex Vonner?
2. Who does Billy Ray Cobb's brother, Freddie, approach in seeking revenge, and what is the result?
3. What is Ellen Roark's response to Jake when he quizzes her on her credentials?
4. What do readers learn about Jake Brigance in Chapter 8?
5. Why is Carl Lee reluctant to rehire Jake?
6. Why does Judge Noose impose a gag order?
7. In what ways does John Grisham show that Jake relishes being back on center stage once he is Carl Lee's attorney?
8. What is the trajectory of Judge Omar Noose's career that has led him to his current status?
9. What are some Jake's unethical practices?
10. How does Rufus Buckley make use of the illegally-obtained jury list?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Provide examples from the text where John Grisham utilizes the language and culture of the south to place the reader in the small, Mississippi town of Clanton.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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