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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens at the end of the trial?
(a) Williams faints
(b) Williams' trial is called a mistrial
(c) Williams is convicted of murder
(d) Williams is exonerated

2. What is Williams' demeanor regarding his case?
(a) Anxious
(b) Guilty
(c) Unconcerned
(d) Frantic

3. Where does Joe get the money to pay traffic tickets?
(a) His girlfriend's purse
(b) His house tours fund
(c) The narrator
(d) The cash register at Sweet Georgia Brown's

4. What replaces Jim Williams in the Savannah news stories?
(a) Back-to-school information
(b) Holiday events articles
(c) Articles on the economy
(d) Terrorism articles

5. Why is the answer to #142 not invited to the event?
(a) She does not know how to dance
(b) Fear that she will be an embarrassment
(c) There are already too many women on the guest list
(d) She always drinks too much

6. What does the answer to #142 do to embarrass the narrator?
(a) Dances too provocatively
(b) Mentions her white boyfriend
(c) Drinks too much
(d) Gets into a fight

7. What does the prosecutor bring to light about Williams?
(a) He is racially prejudiced
(b) He used to pay Danny for sex
(c) He has an alcohol problem
(d) He is losing his business

8. What is at the core of all of Savannah's problems?
(a) Its isolation from the rest of the world
(b) People drink too much alcohol
(c) The politicians are all crooked
(d) Its refusal to change with the times

9. What does Williams avoid admitting to himself?
(a) That his mother is terminally ill
(b) That he may have killed Danny
(c) That he is still in jail
(d) That his antiques business is failing

10. What happens with Williams' fourth trial?
(a) It is considered a mistrial
(b) He is convicted
(c) He is exonerated
(d) He is sentenced to death

11. What does Williams tell the truth about the night Danny Hansford died?
(a) His mother
(b) Minerva
(c) Sonny Seiler
(d) The narrator

12. What is the verdict reached by the jury?
(a) Guilty of pre-meditated murder
(b) Guilty of manslaughter
(c) Hung jury
(d) Not guilty

13. What is Joe Odom's opinion of Danny Hansford's murder?
(a) It was self defense
(b) It was not premeditated
(c) It was committed by someone other than Williams
(d) It was planned

14. What fee does Williams get for the use of Mercer House?
(a) $100,000
(b) $15,000
(c) $50,000
(d) $25,000

15. Why are Savannah residents unhappy with the local art college?
(a) The tuition keeps rising
(b) It draws too many out -of-state students
(c) The campus is not maintained
(d) It breeds liberally-minded students

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Williams testify?

2. In whose involvement of the case does Williams show more interest?

3. Who is the nurse that Sonny Seiler calls to testify at the third trial?

4. What is Williams' demeanor as he waits?

5. Who is Danny Hansford's mother?

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