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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money does Willie lose playing poker?
(a) $100
(b) $20
(c) $1000
(d) $55

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

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

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

5. What is the piece of land called where the Padgitt family lives?
(a) Padgitt Mountain
(b) Padgitt Commune
(c) Padgitt Island
(d) Padgitt Holler

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

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

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

9. What happens to Willie's photographer, Wiley Meek?
(a) Beaten almost to death
(b) Shot
(c) Stabbed
(d) Ran off the road

10. What does the district attorney ask that they do for the murder trial?
(a) Pull the death sentence off the table
(b) Enlarge the jury pool
(c) Have a mock trial
(d) Move the trial to a different state

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What piece of evidence is presented that had belonged to Danny Padgitt?

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

3. Willie says Bubba and his friends say their war experiences are ______________.

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

5. Who tells Willie and his photographer the story?

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