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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who requests permission to serve as a second lawyer to Jacob on the first day of the trial?
(a) Schmidt.
(b) Andy.
(c) Duffy.
(d) Neal.

2. Who admits that in addition to Andy wanting to pursue Patz as a suspect in Ben's murder, he had also wanted to pursue Patz?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Neal.
(c) Billy.
(d) Duffy.

3. Sarah tells Andy that she bets Andy had had a really good what?
(a) First kiss.
(b) Childhood.
(c) Father.
(d) Mother.

4. Andy tells the reader that by the time of his visit to Derek's house, Laurie had lost so much weight that what?
(a) Her face looked hollow.
(b) Her hip bones protruded.
(c) Her spine was visible.
(d) Her eyes were sunken.

5. Whom does Andy name as a man whose manner makes it easy for one to imagine him as a boy?
(a) Billy.
(b) Dan.
(c) Jonathan.
(d) Neal.

6. Who is NOT determined to have the MAOA Knockout gene?
(a) Andy.
(b) Billy.
(c) Jacob.
(d) Laurie.

7. The judge assigned to Jacob's case is described by Andy as "the only judge" (248) who what?
(a) Whose every defendant had been given a stiff sentence.
(b) Whose every defendant had been convicted.
(c) Whose face the public recognizes.
(d) Whose father and grandfather had both been judges as well.

8. First-degree murder carries a mandatory sentence of what?
(a) The death penalty.
(b) Life without the possibility of parole.
(c) Life with the possibility of parole.
(d) Twenty-five years.

9. What reason does Andy give for saying that Neal's shopping spree for new suits had been a mistake?
(a) Neal is concentrating on the wrong issues.
(b) The new suits are ill-fitting and wrinkled.
(c) Neal tends to preen in his new costumes.
(d) Neal is sending the wrong message to the jury.

10. What does Jacob say about how he thinks that jury feels about him after the first day of trial?
(a) They do not like him.
(b) They like him.
(c) They are giving him the benefit of the doubt.
(d) They are not paying him any attention.

11. In addition to the 12 jurors chosen for the jury, how many alternates are chosen?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

12. What method of escape does Andy report using every morning in order to forget the trial for a few minutes?
(a) Surfing the internet.
(b) Running.
(c) Cycling.
(d) Taking a bath.

13. Andy is furious when Jacob posts a picture of himself on Facebook with whose face plastered over his own?
(a) Hannibal Lecter.
(b) Jeffrey Dahmer.
(c) Norman Bates.
(d) Ted Bundy.

14. How much money does Matthew say Patz had given him in exchange for allowing Patz to touch Matthew's body over his clothes?
(a) $50.
(b) $30.
(c) $120.
(d) $100.

15. What is NOT a rumor Ben had started about Jacob prior to Ben's murder?
(a) Jacob offered to perform oral sex on a boy at a party.
(b) Ben and Derek were lovers.
(c) Jacob was caught masturbating in the classroom during recess.
(d) Jacob got an erection in the shower after track.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what device does Derek say Jacob reads and writes pornographic stories?

2. Second-degree murder carries with it eligibility for parole after how many years?

3. Who is the first member of the Barber family to notice the Lincoln Town Car running its engine outside their house one night?

4. What is NOT mentioned by Sarah as something Ben had been teasing Jacob about in the months prior to Ben's murder?

5. What is the reason for the delay the morning of the first day of Jacob's trial?

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