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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long does it take to get the verdict back?
(a) Four hours
(b) Two days
(c) Half a day
(d) Less than an hour

3. What's happening at the jail when Willie and his photographer arrive?
(a) Danny Padgitt is being fingerprinted
(b) Danny Padgitt is having mug shots taken
(c) The sheriff is asleep
(d) Danny Padgitt is being released

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

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

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

7. What is wrong with Callie?
(a) Hadn't eaten
(b) Low blood sugar
(c) High blood pressure
(d) Had a heat stroke

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

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

10. What kind of car did the landlord have that Willie buys?
(a) Cadillac
(b) Volkswagen
(c) Mercedes
(d) GTO

11. What does Baggy say that the family Padgitt knows?
(a) That Willie won't stop
(b) That the Rhonda girl had what was comming to her
(c) That Danny is guilty
(d) That Danny is hard to like

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

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

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

15. What does Willie realize he has left either in his car or his apartment?
(a) His camera
(b) His gun
(c) The keys to his safe
(d) His cell phone

Short Answer Questions

1. The morning the paper comes out what is Willie at the Court House for?

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

3. What do Willie and Wiley hear a lot of while they are sitting at the table in the dinner?

4. What does Willie put in his article that he knows will get him a 'slap on the wrist'.

5. What does Willie Traynor learn about that makes him decide to go to work in a small town paper?

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