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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Piston discover?
(a) A death threat
(b) A bomb
(c) A bottle of moonshine
(d) A severed finger

2. What does Willie do once the house is finished?
(a) Buys all new furniture
(b) Starts a bed and breakfast
(c) Writes a story about it in the paper
(d) Throws a party

3. Who does Willie receive a phone call from?
(a) Callie
(b) Esau
(c) Baggs
(d) Harry Rex

4. Who goes with Willie to check up on Danny Padgitt?
(a) Wiley Meek
(b) Baggs
(c) Harry Rex
(d) Callie Ruffin

5. Why do the rumors in the town say that the district attorney had made his request?
(a) To make it harder for Danny to escape
(b) To make it harder to buy a jury
(c) To keep word of the trial from leaking out
(d) To stop gossip

Short Answer Questions

1. How many letters to the editor about the trial does Willie send on to print?

2. What does Willie find under his door when he returns to work?

3. What does Bubba say will not be at the poker game?

4. Who receives one of the summons to be on the jury pool?

5. What does Willie do after receiving death threats?

(see the answer key)

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