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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Willie find under his door when he returns to work?
(a) A letter from Ginger
(b) Letters to the editor
(c) A lottery ticket
(d) A threat from the Padgitts

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

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

5. What did Baggy say the Padgitt family was trying to do?
(a) Intimidate the paper
(b) Draw attention away from Danny
(c) Kill Willie
(d) Make Willie leave town

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

7. Where do Ginger and Willie go to celebrate the guilty verdict?
(a) Memphis
(b) The Padgitt drive way
(c) Rhonda's house
(d) Louisiana

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

9. What signals the end of the letters about the war?
(a) Christmas
(b) The end of the war
(c) The assassination of the president
(d) Thanksgiving

10. What is Willie told in reference to how Danny is most likely being treated while in jail?
(a) Like a prince
(b) Living the good life
(c) Having a rough time of it
(d) Sleeping in the detox tank

11. What is the Padgitt family known for selling?
(a) Stolen vehicles
(b) Pigs
(c) Government contraband
(d) Whiskey

12. How did Mr. DeJarnette die?
(a) Fell into a logging machine
(b) Committed suicide
(c) Heart attack
(d) Drown

13. Where does Will offer to drive Ginger, Rhonda's sister?
(a) To Rhonda's house
(b) To Callin Ruffin's for lunch
(c) To her hotel
(d) To his place

14. Why does Harry Rex later tell Willie that Callie was chosen as a juror?
(a) She was well educated
(b) Willie's lunches with her
(c) Her family knew Rhonda
(d) Willie's articles about her

15. What does Callie tell Willie she is concerned about?
(a) Willie's soul
(b) Willie's life
(c) Willie's health
(d) Danny Padgitt's trial

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Sheriff say he is thankful he didn't do?

2. What does the funeral home directer tell Willie when Willie says that his landlord, Mr. Magargel, is dead?

3. What does Willie realize he has left either in his car or his apartment?

4. Who does Willy expect to see at his office after the trial is over?

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

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