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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Willie tell Harry Rex he is thinking about doing?
(a) Marrying
(b) Moving from Ford County
(c) Going to Padgitt island
(d) Selling the paper

2. What does Willie say he is tired of?
(a) Working on his house
(b) Writing
(c) The Padgitts
(d) Being alone

3. How does Willie treat the closing of the small stores on Main Street?
(a) As if it would sell papers
(b) Like no one cared
(c) Like it was only mildly interesting
(d) Like an obituary

4. Who is killed at the beginning of Chapter 37?
(a) Wiley Meek
(b) Harry Rex
(c) Danny Padgitt
(d) Lenny Fargarson

5. What has Willie put off telling Callie?
(a) He sold the paper
(b) He is leaving Clayton
(c) Willie wants to get married
(d) Willie is going back home to care for his grandmother

6. What happens to Callie in Chapter 44?
(a) Cancer is found
(b) Another stroke
(c) A lung collapses
(d) Another heart attack

7. Why did Willie not go to Mo Teale's funeral?
(a) Willie didn't know him
(b) Willie was having a meeting about the paper
(c) Willie was meeting with the sheriff
(d) Willie was sitting with Callie Ruffin

8. What does Callie Ruffin decide to do though Esau and Sam advise against it?
(a) Put out an add for a body guard
(b) Go to the new shopping store
(c) Attend the funeral
(d) Move

9. What has Callie's house become?
(a) A haven
(b) A prison
(c) A reminder that the jurors are hunted
(d) Stale

10. Where does Willie recognize Lenny Fargarson from?
(a) From other churches
(b) Padgitt's jury
(c) Being at a protest
(d) Padgitt's family

11. What does Willie want to be honored if he sells the paper?
(a) The human intrest stories
(b) The obituary section
(c) The name of the paper
(d) The contracts for his writers

12. Who arrives back in Ford County in Chapter 36?
(a) Ginger
(b) Sam Ruffin
(c) Danny Padgitt
(d) Lydia

13. What does McGrew want Willie to do if they buy the paper?
(a) Leave town
(b) A chicken dance
(c) Keep the sell quiet
(d) Stay on for a year to train the new editor

14. Who is one of the few people that speaks out about getting the big business store in Clayton?
(a) Callie Ruffin
(b) Willie
(c) Harry Rex
(d) Baggs

15. What was Mo Teale called during the Padgitt trials?
(a) Mr. John Deere
(b) Farmer Man
(c) Bubba
(d) Big Smith

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harry Rex say that the parole board's private meeting rules were in clear contradiction of?

2. What does Lucien Willbanks specifically say about Willie in regards to the meeting?

3. What is the name of the big store coming to Clayton?

4. Who does Willie lock eyes with when he enters the room for the parole hearing?

5. What does Harry Rex say will happen if there is another murder soon?

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