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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What verdict does the jury come to in regards to Danny serving a life sentence or receiving the death penalty?
(a) They cannot reach a decision
(b) Life sentence
(c) Death penalty
(d) They decide to go to Disney Land

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

3. What does Bubba Crockett tell Willie that he knew was going to happen a week after Bubba arrived at Vietnam?
(a) He would get back home
(b) He was going to die
(c) They were going to win the war
(d) His friends were going to die

4. What does Lydia's ex-husband say is the reason they were divorcing?
(a) Lydia was a drug runner
(b) Lydia was a floozy
(c) Lydia is a lesbian
(d) Lydia was joining a convent

5. What does Willie put in his article that he knows will get him a 'slap on the wrist'.
(a) Bad language
(b) Negative talk about the president
(c) A picture of a grieving mother
(d) Picture of a black soldier

6. Why does Baggy say the family has decided to leave the trial in their hometown?
(a) They don't have the money to go through all the steps
(b) They can buy the jury there
(c) So that Danny will be closer to home
(d) They can drive to the trial easier

7. Who is the second witness called?
(a) Rhonda's neighbor
(b) Rhonda's children
(c) Danny Padgitt
(d) Rhonda's sister

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

9. What does Baggy say surprised him?
(a) That the bomb wasnt' at Willie's home
(b) That the Padgitts didn't come and kill Willie themselves
(c) That the bomb didn't go off
(d) That people like that were still around

10. What does Willie's next story focus on?
(a) The treatment Danny is receiving in jail
(b) The sheriff and his connection with the family
(c) Rhonda's children
(d) The crime scene

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

12. What group decides to write a bunch of letters to be printed taking Willie's view point on the war?
(a) Young men that had been drafted
(b) High school students
(c) Parents of those lost in the war
(d) Preachers

13. What do Willie and the Tishomingo County Sheriff laugh at?
(a) How rediculous Lydia's testimony was
(b) How inbred the Padgitts are
(c) The bad road construction
(d) How corrupt Sheriff Coley has become

14. What does the defense lawyer say that Willie's story has done?
(a) Tainted the Padgitt family name
(b) Corrupted the jury pool
(c) Lied
(d) Made life unbearable for the family

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sam leave town when Mr. Durant wants him dead?

2. What do District Attorney Gaddis and Henry Rex decide they need to do?

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

4. What happens when the sniper is caught?

5. What does Willie hear while in his office?

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