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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Willie worry about after hearing Lydia Vince's testimony?
(a) Ginger will be crushed
(b) His paper will be in trouble
(c) The children will be called in
(d) The jury will have reasonable doubt

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

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

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

5. What is the sniper wearing when found?
(a) His pajamas
(b) Naked
(c) A dress
(d) A business suit

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

7. Why does Baggy say that Callie will be chosen as a juror?
(a) Blacks were thought to be more sympathetic to criminals
(b) Blacks were easy to manipulate
(c) Blacks were to uneducated to know
(d) Callie was a smart woman

8. Who does Willy expect to see at his office after the trial is over?
(a) Callie
(b) The district attorney
(c) Ginger
(d) Harry Rex

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

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

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

12. What happens when the sniper is caught?
(a) Put into county jail
(b) Put on medication and sent home
(c) Given a phsyc eval and sent home
(d) Put into a mental institution

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

14. What happens that Willie is able to cover and helps his newspaper grow?
(a) Desegregation
(b) The price of milk goes up
(c) A riot in Memphis
(d) Vietnam war

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is hired to investigate the affair that Iris Durant is having?

2. What does Callie tell Willie she is concerned about?

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

4. What is the piece of land called where the Padgitt family lives?

5. Who tells Willie and his photographer the story?

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