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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Willie volunteer to tell about the murder?
(a) The Padgitt lawyer
(b) Sam Ruffin
(c) Five of the jurors
(d) Callie Ruffin

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Willie admit that he started some of his arguments because of?
(a) A need to be heard
(b) Boredom
(c) To have something to write about
(d) Fun

9. What is Willie told he cannot do after he leaves the parole hearing?
(a) Cover the parole hearing in the paper
(b) Contact the victim's family
(c) Talk about the parole hearing to his friends
(d) Talk to the defendant

10. What is about to happen to Lucien due to an unrelated case?
(a) Loose his practice
(b) Disbarred
(c) Have surgery
(d) Go to jail

11. What is Lucien's one condition for bringing Danny Padgitt in?
(a) Immediate bail hearing
(b) The Padgitts are allowed to stay in town
(c) Danny would be treated well
(d) No press allowed

12. What is supposedly in the box that came from Maxine Root's sister?
(a) Almonds
(b) Pecans
(c) Fruit
(d) Firecrackers

13. What does Callie Ruffin say she remembered about the person killed?
(a) He loved his parents
(b) He was in such pain because of his accident
(c) He had been polite
(d) They had prayed together

14. Who does Willie see at Calico Ridge church?
(a) A member of the Padgitt family
(b) Hank Hooten
(c) Ginger
(d) Ollie

15. What does the state trooper find in the car filled with high school students hours after graduation?
(a) Opium
(b) Crack
(c) Guns
(d) Marijuana

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who arrives back in Ford County in Chapter 36?

3. What happened to Callie when the shooting began?

4. What does Willie say Baggy very well might die of soon?

5. What does Ollie call his late night 'varmit' hunting?

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