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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 does Rusty find on a large iron tool in the basement of his house?
(a) Dried semen.
(b) Bloody fingerprints.
(c) Blood and hair.
(d) Blood and skin.

2. As an expert witness, Dr. Kumagai will say __________________________.
(a) that Rusty is not guilty.
(b) that Rusty is guilty.
(c) that the crime scene was contaminated.
(d) what he thinks happened at the crime scene.

3. What is Horgan doing since he retired from his prosecuting attorney position?
(a) Teaching law.
(b) Volunteering at a law clinic.
(c) A partner in a law firm.
(d) He no longer works.

4. What question does Molto ask of Rusty's psychiatrist, Miles Robinson, when he is on the stand?
(a) If Rusty ever told him that he had an affair with Carolyn.
(b) If Rusty ever told him his true feelings for Barbara.
(c) If Rusty ever told him that he had murdered Carolyn.
(d) If Rusty was agitated the day after Carolyn's murder.

5. Horgan states that Rusty never said that ________________________.
(a) he needed some time off for a personal matter.
(b) he was involved with Carolyn too.
(c) Carolyn was slacking off in her job.
(d) his case load was too high.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sandy requests that __________________ not be allowed on the prosecuting team because he is also on the witness list.

2. Rusty's secretary testifies that she heard Rusty call Carolyn ____________________ during a phone conversation.

3. Which one of the following is NOT descriptive of Judge Lyttle who accepted bribes for a period of time?

4. Why do Rusty and Nat not stay for barbecue after a t-ball game when Summer comes?

5. When proceedings begin, Kemp tells the judge that the defense has not been allowed to examine _________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How have innocence and simplicity leave the life of Rusty and his family?

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

3. What does Rusty do in the weeks following the trial?

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. Late on the evening of the end of the trial, Rusty visits Sandy in his office. What does Rusty reveal to Sandy which could explain why Judge Lyttle abruptly ended the trial?

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

8. What kindness does Marty Polhemus show to Rusty which, had he not, would have had bad consequences for him?

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

10. What incriminating information does Leon Wells give to Rusty and Lip about Carolyn and Larren Lyttle?

(see the answer keys)

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