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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Williams want Minerva to do?
(a) Put a curse on Lawton
(b) Stop communicating with Danny
(c) Put a curse on Judge Oliver
(d) Tell his fortune

2. What makes the narrator real in the end?
(a) A picture at the end of the chapter
(b) His published resume
(c) His opinions of Savannah
(d) His published e-mail address

3. Who orders a new trial for Williams?
(a) The Georgia Supreme Court
(b) His lawyer
(c) Judge Oliver
(d) His mother

4. Why is Williams confident that he will win a third time?
(a) There are new witnesses
(b) The deciding factor will be money
(c) There is a new judge
(d) There is new evidence

5. Who works the party in a maid's uniform?
(a) Mrs. Williams
(b) Mandy
(c) Minverva
(d) Chablis

6. In whose involvement of the case does Williams show more interest?
(a) Minerva's
(b) His attorney's
(c) The judge's
(d) His mother's

7. According to Williams, what was Danny's demeanor on the night of the murder?
(a) Calm and collected
(b) Sleepy and lethargic
(c) Volatile and angry
(d) Confused and dazed

8. How do Savannahians view outsiders?
(a) Threatening
(b) Welcome
(c) Artists
(d) Criminals

9. Williams is angered about police and public treatment of ______________________.
(a) His friends
(b) Mercer House
(c) His business
(d) His mother

10. Why does Minerva get angry at Danny's grave?
(a) Williams will not stop talking
(b) She forgot to bring all the herbs she needs
(c) Her lantern keeps blowing out
(d) She hears Danny laughing at her

11. To what does the nurse testify?
(a) Danny's body had been cleaned before it arrived at the morgue
(b) Danny's hands had not been bagged when his body arrived at the morgue
(c) Danny's body had five shotgun wounds
(d) Danny's head had been almost severed by a knife wound

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is still going to work on Williams' behalf?

2. What happens less than a month after Williams' Christmas party?

3. On what day is Savannah's most famous parade held?

4. What does Williams tell the truth about the night Danny Hansford died?

5. Who is the black woman Joe hires to give tours of the house?

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