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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. Who is the nurse that Sonny Seiler calls to testify at the third trial?
(a) Marilyn Case
(b) Audra Morton
(c) Mary Campbell
(d) Judy Everson

2. Why does Minverva refuse to testify?
(a) Danny told her not to
(b) Her dead lover told her not to
(c) She knows one of the jurors
(d) It is not a good day according to her tea leaves

3. What does Judge Oliver do in court every day?
(a) Falls asleep
(b) Removes jurors
(c) Listens to his radio
(d) Drinks coffee with bourbon in it

4. What event does the narrator attend?
(a) The Savannah Junior League Cotillion
(b) The Annual Black Debutante Ball
(c) The Chamber of Commerce Chili Supper
(d) The Knights of Columbus Fish Fry

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the cell Williams inhabits?

2. Who is the judge at Jim's trial?

3. What does Williams do from jail?

4. What does Williams plan for the first time in eight years?

5. Williams is angered about police and public treatment of ______________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Savannah described in Chapter 30?

2. What is the Garden of Good and Evil?

3. What is the outcome of Jim's second trial?

4. What is the result of the trial?

5. What news gradually supersedes Jim's murder case in Savannah?

6. What is Jim's situation at the end of Chapter 25?

7. What are the implications of homosexuality in Jim's trial?

8. What prompts Joe Odom to issue a veiled threat to the narrator about the narrator's presence in Savannah?

9. What does Jim tell the narrator about the night Danny was killed?

10. Why do Jim and Minerva visit Danny's grave?

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