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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 9 | Part 1, Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Willie and Wiley hear a lot of while they are sitting at the table in the dinner?
(a) About the rape and murder
(b) About the Padgitt family history
(c) About Danny Padgitt's past offenses
(d) About Rhonda's life and troubles

2. What is Willie's next story about in Chapter 9?
(a) Rhonda's neighbors
(b) The bomb
(c) Danny Padgitt's sordid history
(d) Rhonda's family

3. What did seven of Esau and Calia Ruffin's eight children earn?
(a) Mansions
(b) Ph.Ds
(c) Teaching degrees
(d) Three figure salaries

4. The morning the paper comes out what is Willie at the Court House for?
(a) The bail hearing
(b) To get the weekly police reports
(c) Voting
(d) A traffic ticket

5. What does Danny Padgitt's lawyer make a motion for?
(a) To have the case dismissed
(b) To make it a closed trial
(c) To remove all reporters from the courtroom
(d) To change venue

Short Answer Questions

1. What had been wrong with Willie's mother that he hadn't had food as good as Callie Ruffin's?

2. Who tells Willie and his photographer the story?

3. Where does Willie get the money to buy the newspaper?

4. How does Willie describe the newspaper office?

5. Who is surprisingly called to the stand to prove the point that Danny Padgitt can't get a fair trial?

(see the answer key)

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