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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 response does Dr. Robinson give to the answer in #148?
(a) Rusty did not tell him that he ended the affair with Carolyn.
(b) Rusty never really loved Barbara.
(c) Rusty did not tell him that he murdered Carolyn.
(d) Rusty was not his patient at the time of Carolyn's murder.

2. What fact has the prosecution not been able to establish in court?
(a) That Rusty had an affair with Carolyn.
(b) That Horgan had an affair with Carolyn.
(c) That Molto had an affair with Carolyn.
(d) That Lip had an affair with Carolyn.

3. Sandy requests that __________________ not be allowed on the prosecuting team because he is also on the witness list.
(a) Raymond Horgan.
(b) Della Guardia.
(c) Dan Lipranzer.
(d) Tommy Molto.

4. What does Rusty do when Horgan asks him who really killed Carolyn?
(a) He gives a half-bow.
(b) He salutes him.
(c) He raises his eyebrows in question.
(d) He simply smiles.

5. After the trial, Sandy will be _______________________.
(a) teaching law school.
(b) retiring.
(c) becoming a judge.
(d) an attorney of national standing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rusty tell Nico when he runs into him on the street several months after the trial?

2. Who is Rusty's former secretary?

3. Who shows up at Carolyn's apartment while Rusty and Lip are inspecting it?

4. Why was there no reason for Carolyn to have used contraceptive jelly found in her body?

5. Where do Rusty and Sandy have lunch at the beginning of Chapter 29?

Short Essay Questions

1. On the first day of the trial, what does the defense say it has not had a chance to examine yet and who does the prosecution agree not to call during the trial?

2. How does the murder trial affect Rusty and Barbara's marriage?

3. What are Rusty's thoughts about his father when Sandy mentions how Rusty met Horgan, and what do they mean regarding implications of the family influence on people?

4. What does Rusty deduce about why Sandy was considering entering the B file into the trial?

5. How do Horgan and Judge Lyttle react to legal situations?

6. Why is the end of the trial so unsettling for the reader?

7. Who does Rusty recognize as the person who anonymously calls his house once a week and what favor does Rusty ask of him?

8. Why does Horgan consider his relationship with Rusty to be over?

9. Why does the author raise the critical issue of Kumagai's testimony just as he had shown positive successes for the defense?

10. How do the testimonies of Eugenia, Mrs. Krapotnik and Horgan practically guarantee an acquittal for Rusty?

(see the answer keys)

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