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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Paster Cooper's sermon about in Chapter 34?
(a) Desegregation
(b) Social drinking
(c) Ten Commandments
(d) Tolerance and love

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

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

4. What does Willie say Baggy very well might die of soon?
(a) Liver poisoning
(b) Cancer
(c) Drunk driving
(d) Heart attack

5. What is the name of the big store coming to Clayton?
(a) Stuff Mart
(b) Wal-Mart
(c) More for Less
(d) Bargain City

6. Who does Baggy say took a bribe in order to release Danny Pagitt?
(a) Senator Theo Morton
(b) Sheriff Andy Taylor
(c) Governor Terrance Martin
(d) Mayor Thomas McClain

7. Why is Willie worried that Danny might be allowed another trial?
(a) Danny might be found innocent
(b) The stress might hurt Callie
(c) The Padgitts would come back to his town for the trial
(d) Ginger might be called back to the stand

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

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

10. What does Sheriff McNaught tell Maxine Root's brothers to do?
(a) Keep their guns in their trucks
(b) Stay away from Padgitt island
(c) Take off their stupid hats
(d) Stay close to their sister

11. How much is Willie told his newspaper business is worth?
(a) 10 million
(b) 1.2 million
(c) A hundred thousand
(d) Can't really say

12. What does Esau bring outside with him?
(a) A book
(b) Knife
(c) Pistol
(d) Double barrel shot gun

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

14. How many churches does Willie make a list of in Ford County?
(a) Eighty eight
(b) Thirty five
(c) A hundred and six
(d) Seventy two

15. How many people is Willie able to find to go with him to the parole hearing of Danny Padgitt?
(a) Three
(b) Thirty
(c) Five
(d) Sixty-two

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Willie admit that he started some of his arguments because of?

2. Why did Willie not go to Mo Teale's funeral?

3. What does Willie say that he and the paper had done together?

4. What happens to Callie in Chapter 44?

5. What does Willie do after receiving death threats?

(see the answer keys)

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