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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. What adjective does Andy use to describe Laurie's manner when she gets seated on the first morning of Jacob's trial?
(a) Optimistic.
(b) Hopeless.
(c) Desperate.
(d) Miserable.

2. Who is the first witness called during Jacob's trial?
(a) Paula Giannetto,
(b) Paula Giannetto, Jacob's teacher.
(c) Paula Giannetto, the jogger who found Ben's dead body.
(d) Paula Giannetto,

3. What noise is happening the night before the start of Jacob's trial that makes it impossible for Laurie to sleep?
(a) Bats screeching.
(b) Police sirens.
(c) The screeches of a dying cat.
(d) Firecrackers exploding.

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

5. How far away from Ben's middle school had his dead body been found?
(a) Fewer than ten yards.
(b) Fewer than two miles.
(c) Less than a quarter mile.
(d) Fewer than thirty feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Andy give for Jacob's dislike of "broody teen vampire" (188) novels?

2. Dr. Vogel says that a person with Reactive Attachment Disorder must have had a disruption within what period of their life?

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

5. What allusion is being used within Dr. Vogel's psychiatric diagnosis of Jacob?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who wins the battle between Neal and Duffy within Chapter 30?

2. How does the epigraph included at the start of Part Three depict the theme of nature versus nurture?

3. Describe the symptoms Andy describes as being associated with his "familiar battlefield euphoria" (243) going into Jacob's trial.

4. Andy becomes enraged when the psychiatrist, Dr. Vogel, asks Andy for what item?

5. How does William Landay use a sailboat to create a simile about the timeline of a trial?

6. How is foreshadowing utilized within the final passages of Chapter 29?

7. How does Andy get Patz's attention when he wants to talk to Patz?

8. When Andy loses his temper while testifying in front of the grand jury, Neal uses the episode as a way to comment on Andy's relationship with control. What does Neal say?

9. Once Andy agrees to provide Dr. Vogel with the item she requests, what new task does she put in front of Andy?

10. What is the judge's ruling about the introduction of evidence relating to the murder gene?

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