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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Willie and Wiley hear a lot of while they are sitting at the table in the dinner?
(a) About the Padgitt family history
(b) About the rape and murder
(c) About Rhonda's life and troubles
(d) About Danny Padgitt's past offenses

2. What is the Padgitt family known for selling?
(a) Whiskey
(b) Stolen vehicles
(c) Pigs
(d) Government contraband

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

4. Why do the rumors in the town say that the district attorney had made his request?
(a) To make it harder for Danny to escape
(b) To make it harder to buy a jury
(c) To keep word of the trial from leaking out
(d) To stop gossip

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did seven of Esau and Calia Ruffin's eight children earn?

2. Who is murdered in a nearby county?

3. What religion does Willie claim although he doesn't attend a church?

4. What kind of car did the landlord have that Willie buys?

5. What verdict does the jury come to in regards to Danny serving a life sentence or receiving the death penalty?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Callie's childhood and how she was educated.

2. Describe Lydia Vince's testimony in Chapter 16.

3. Describe what happens after Malcolm Vince is murdered in Chapter 22.

4. What happens when Willie goes to Callie's house in Chapter 29?

5. How are the Padgitt family members described in Chapter 3?

6. Describe Callie's feelings about being picked to be on the jury for the murder trial.

7. Describe the letters that Willie receives after the trial.

8. Describe the election campaign that takes place in Chapter 27.

9. Describe the attack that happens in Chapter 2

10. Describe Willie's new look that he puts into play in Chapter 21.

(see the answer keys)

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