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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. What does Lucien tell Jake regarding the summation?

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

3. What does Wanda Womack ask the jury panel to consider to convince them to rule not guilty by reason of insanity?

4. While the trio is at lunch on the day of opening statements, and Jake is in the restroom, Ellen describes Jake as the best she has seen, but qualifies that view how?

5. When the word gets out that the jury is ready, what does Reverend Agee do with the demonstrators?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Jake when the National Guard arrive?

4. 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?

5. Just past midnight of the day Dr. Bass was questioned, what does Jake discover when driven to his home due to an emergency?

6. What are some of the changes in perspective the Carl Lee Hailey trial has had on Jake?

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

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

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

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

The theme of alcohol abuse runs throughout "A Time to Kill." It begins in the first chapter, is interwoven throughout the story, and is summarized in the last chapter as to how key characters will approach it. Several of them are or have been abusers of alcohol in the past, and are now. Some are progressing as the trial continues. The defense team retreats to alcohol routinely for different reasons. Others are resorting to alcohol at critical times. Examine these aspects and how John Grisham interweaves the theme of alcohol abuse through the story.

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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