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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do District Attorney Gaddis and Henry Rex decide they need to do?
(a) Figure out who gave her money
(b) Find out who her husband is
(c) Prove Lydia is lying
(d) Find out where Lydia lives

3. At lunch that week what does Callie call Willie?
(a) Marvelous
(b) Thick headed
(c) Stupid
(d) Courageous

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

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

6. What does Sam contact Willie and ask him to do?
(a) Get protection
(b) Talk to Mr. Durant on Sam's behalf
(c) Sneak him into town
(d) Get him a fast car

7. What does Mr. Durant say when Harry Rex says that Sam has asked for forgiveness?
(a) He has Alzheimers and can't remember
(b) Which affair was that
(c) He has forgiven Sam
(d) He will wait on Sam with a gun

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

9. What does Harry Rex invite Willie to come to?
(a) A goat roast
(b) A small dance
(c) A creek party
(d) A muddin' party

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

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

12. Who is called as a witness that gives a very upsetting testimony?
(a) Mrs. Deece
(b) Mr. Deece
(c) The coroner
(d) Rhonda's sister

13. 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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why had Bubba's older brother been rejected by the draft?

2. What happens to the newspaper after Willie's second story in Chapter 6?

3. Why does Harry Rex later tell Willie that Callie was chosen as a juror?

4. What did seven of Esau and Calia Ruffin's eight children earn?

5. What does Harry Rex give Willie?

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