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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Danny Padgitt's lawyer make a motion for?
(a) To have the case dismissed
(b) To remove all reporters from the courtroom
(c) To change venue
(d) To make it a closed trial

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

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

4. 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

5. Who receives one of the summons to be on the jury pool?
(a) Esau Ruffin
(b) Willie
(c) Harry Rex
(d) Callie Ruffin

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

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

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

9. Who came to get Rhonda's children after her death?
(a) Their aunt
(b) Their grandmother
(c) Their cousin
(d) Their father

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

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

12. What happens to The Ford County Times?
(a) It burns down
(b) The owner has a heart attack
(c) It goes bankrupt
(d) It gets sued

13. How does Sam leave town when Mr. Durant wants him dead?
(a) Hitchhiked
(b) On a Greyhound bus
(c) In his Volkswagen
(d) Took a cab

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Sam Ruffin been working when he was sixteen?

2. How did Mr. DeJarnette die?

3. Although it is a big part of the news in the world what does Willie note is not mentioned during the campaigns?

4. What is Willie's next story about in Chapter 9?

5. Who goes back to the office with Willie to await the jury's verdict?

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