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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the shooter begin shooting after the attack in the courtroom?
(a) Various buildings
(b) Lucien's law office windows
(c) Padgitt's car
(d) The other jurors

2. What does Willie know has happened to Mr. Trooper Durant?
(a) Passed away
(b) Divorced twice
(c) Had a stroke
(d) Went out of business

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

4. Where do the Ruffin children go to stay the night while Callie is in the hospital?
(a) Hotels
(b) Back to their homes
(c) Callie's home
(d) Willie's house

5. Who speaks out against Danny's parole in Chapter 36?
(a) Sheriff McNatt
(b) Willie
(c) Wiley Meek
(d) Baggy

6. What does Willie say he is losing interest in?
(a) The drama
(b) Being in a small town
(c) The newspaper business
(d) Journalism as a vocation

7. What do the Padgitt's NOT smuggle their crops off their island with?
(a) Firetrucks
(b) Boats
(c) Pickups
(d) Airplanes

8. Where does Willie go to cry?
(a) The back room at Pepe's
(b) His home
(c) His office
(d) Harry Rex's office

9. What does Harry Rex say will happen if there is another murder soon?
(a) A war between cops and the Padgitts
(b) The jurors will move out of town
(c) The town will have FBI there
(d) Padgitt will go straight to jail

10. What does the vandal do at Zook's farm?
(a) Sets the barns on fire
(b) Partially drains oil from the tractor
(c) Takes the spark plugs from the tractors
(d) Slashes the tractor tires

11. How many years does it take the renovators to finish Willie's house?
(a) Ten
(b) Four
(c) Five
(d) Seven

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

13. What does Willie say that he and the paper had done together?
(a) Matured
(b) Made a name in Ford County
(c) Suceeded
(d) Fought for the truth

14. What is the Calico Ridge church known for?
(a) Being rude
(b) Speaking in tongues
(c) Snake handling
(d) Being the Padgitt's church

15. What is the last thing Willie writes for the newspaper?
(a) The notice of the sale of the newspaper
(b) Hank Hooten's story
(c) Danny Padgitt's obituary
(d) Callie's obituary

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 Willie say Baggy very well might die of soon?

3. What does Buckley say is reason enough to suspect Danny Padgitt in the ongoing murder investigation?

4. What happens to Callie in Chapter 44?

5. What does Willie insist that Callie's family do while in town?

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