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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 ask Sandy when he visits him late on the night of the end of the trial?
(a) Where the glass was all this time.
(b) Why he never put Barbara on the stand.
(c) Who paid the prosecuting team to throw the case.
(d) Why Lyttle really stopped the trial.

2. In Chapter 25, Rusty awakens in the night from a dream about ______________________.
(a) his wife.
(b) his lover.
(c) his mother.
(d) his son.

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

4. Before the testimony of the person in #135, the judge instructs the jury that the absence of _______________ entitles them to raise reasonable doubt in their minds regarding Rusty's guilt.
(a) a murder weapon.
(b) crime scene photos.
(c) the glass.
(d) a suicide note.

5. What does Horgan say he does NOT recall about Rusty's case while discussing it with Rusty and Sandy?
(a) That Rusty asked to be relieved of working on Carolyn's murder case.
(b) That Rusty volunteered to work on Carolyn's murder case.
(c) That he assigned Rusty to Carolyn's murder case.
(d) That Rusty worked 70 hours a week on Carolyn's murder case.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time did Rusty's father spend in jail for his tax evasion crime?

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

3. Sandy's questioning in court ruins ________________ career.

4. Someone has begun calling Rusty once a week, and although the caller does not identify himself, Rusty knows it is ________________.

5. Who is Mrs. Krapotnik?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the encounter between Rusty and Della Guardia several weeks after the trial?

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

4. Why does Della Guardia want Molto to testify in the case? What does Dr. Robinson say regarding Rusty's ever confessing murder to him?

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

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

7. What are some of the elements that foreshadow an easier road than anticipated to Rusty's acquittal?

8. What is the significance of Rusty's dream about his mother in Chapter 25?

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

10. What important piece of information about Horgan does Rusty withhold from Sandy?

(see the answer keys)

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