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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the district attorney ask that they do for the murder trial?
(a) Pull the death sentence off the table
(b) Enlarge the jury pool
(c) Have a mock trial
(d) Move the trial to a different state

2. What does Danny do as he gets off the stand?
(a) Threatens Willie
(b) Spits on the judge
(c) Threatens the jury
(d) Threatens the district attorney

3. What is it about Danny Padgitt that makes the cop reach for his handcuffs?
(a) Blood and alcohol
(b) Blood and his angry voice
(c) Danny is talking about a woman that is dead
(d) The phone call from the victim's neighbor

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

5. Who passes away leaving Willie feeling guilty for not having spoken to him?
(a) Mr. Caudle
(b) The judge
(c) Esau Riffen
(d) The district attorney

6. Who goes back to the office with Willie to await the jury's verdict?
(a) The district attorney
(b) Baggs
(c) Harry Rex
(d) Ginger

7. What religion does Willie claim although he doesn't attend a church?
(a) Episcopalian
(b) Baptist
(c) Catholic
(d) Pentecostal

8. What had been Willie Traynor's dream?
(a) Traveling the world as a journalist
(b) Working in politics
(c) Coving the war efforts
(d) Working for world news

9. Who is murdered in a nearby county?
(a) Malcolm Vince
(b) Lydia Vince
(c) A Padgitt employee
(d) Harry Rex

10. Why had Bubba's older brother been rejected by the draft?
(a) Bad leg
(b) Too old
(c) Eyesight
(d) Genetic condition

11. Who makes fun of Willie's new wardrobe?
(a) Harry Rex
(b) Wiley Meek
(c) Callie
(d) Baggs

12. What did Esau instruct his children to do before they left home?
(a) Write once a week to their mother
(b) Call once a week
(c) Send home money
(d) Write once a month to their motherc

13. What does Sam contact Willie and ask him to do?
(a) Talk to Mr. Durant on Sam's behalf
(b) Get protection
(c) Get him a fast car
(d) Sneak him into town

14. What happens to Willie's photographer, Wiley Meek?
(a) Shot
(b) Beaten almost to death
(c) Ran off the road
(d) Stabbed

15. What does the Sheriff say he is thankful he didn't do?
(a) Testify
(b) Work for the Padgitts
(c) Speak out against Danny Padgitt
(d) Serve on the Padgitt trial jury

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Durant say when Harry Rex says that Sam has asked for forgiveness?

2. What does Harry Rex give Willie?

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

4. What does Willie worry about after hearing Lydia Vince's testimony?

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

(see the answer keys)

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