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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 22, what color fingernails does Percival have?

2. What does Marcus Dean tip Fortier for getting $25,000 from Ginger Redfield and more money from Lance?

3. How long was Hugh gone from Biloxi when he got a job on a freighter hauling frozen shrimp to Europe?

4. When was Biloxi known as "the poor Man's Riviera" (4)?

5. What is the bond for Nevin when he is arrested for killing Fortier and shooting Fortier's girlfriend?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 8, why does Jesse meet with a retired circuit court judge and a minister?

2. Who was Aaron Malco?

3. What happens to Jesse during the war and what does he do after the war?

4. Why does Judge Oliphant finally allow claim of punitives damages for the insurance cases?

5. Why does Dickie Sloan, Jesse's campaign manager quit in 1967, and who steps in for him?

6. How did Prohibition affect Biloxi?

7. What does Lance do after the war?

8. How do the witnesses against Nevin for the murder of Fortier disappear?

9. Why in a brochure is Jesse portrayed as "soft on crime" (121), and why is Jesse not soft on crime?

10. How does Fats handle elections?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Henry Taylor thinks the local police are incompetent because they do not catch him. How does Grisham use dramatic irony when Taylor thinks to himself that the local police are incompetent?

Essay Topic 2

A special prosecutor presides over the trial for Jesse’s murder. Why does Keith not serve as prosecutor for the trial?

Essay Topic 3

Lance pleads guilty. Does Jesse blackmail him into pleading guilty?

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