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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 Nico ask Rusty when he sees him in the restroom?
(a) If he thinks Sandy is doing a good job on his case.
(b) If he killed Carolyn.
(c) If he knows who killed Carolyn.
(d) If he thinks he will like prison.

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

3. 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 Lyttle really stopped the trial.
(c) Who paid the prosecuting team to throw the case.
(d) Why he never put Barbara on the stand.

4. Why does Sandy chastise Kemp during a recess?
(a) He forgot the jurors' interview questions.
(b) He says he thinks Rusty will beat the charge.
(c) He spilled coffee on crime scene photos.
(d) He laughed out loud during court proceedings.

5. Who is Rusty's former secretary?
(a) Maria Gomez.
(b) Eugenia Martinez.
(c) Janice Martin.
(d) Cecelia D'Amico.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Horgan doing since he retired from his prosecuting attorney position?

2. Rusty did not want Sandy to ask in court how Rusty and Horgan met because Horgan's law partner had defended _________________ from tax evasion.

3. At the end of his conversation with Rusty, Sandy implies that _________________ killed Carolyn.

4. Who is Mrs. Krapotnik?

5. What does Lionel Kenneally tell Rusty when he meets him at the tavern?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the tone of Chapters 26-28 and who does the author set up as the champions for the prosecution and the defense?

5. What impact does the missing glass have on Rusty's case at this point?

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

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

8. What points of possible incrimination against himself does Rusty take mental note of?

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

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

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