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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Agee agree to get the "love offering" funds for the Hailey family to Gwen?
(a) When Ozzie says he could tell the church of his stolen car, DUI, and funeral home kickbicks.
(b) When Carl Lee threatens to tell everyone of Agee's dirty dealings.
(c) When Jake threatens to prosecute.
(d) When Ozzie threatens to arrest him.

2. During one phone call to Carla shortly prior to the trial, whose situation is Jake careful not to bring up?
(a) Bud Twitty's.
(b) Gwem Hailey's.
(c) Ozzie Walls'.
(d) Reverend Agee's.

3. Ellen explains that it will be impossible to keep what from the jury?
(a) The fact that Deputy Looney was shot and lost a leg.
(b) Carl Lee's apologizing to Deputy Looney.
(c) The M-16 automatic rifle.
(d) The gory pictures of Willard and Cobb's bodies.

4. How does Carl Lee compare killing the white men who raped his daughter with killing the "gooks" in Vietnam?
(a) He feels killing both situations were equally necessary.
(b) He feels worse about the killing in Vietnam.
(c) He feels worse about the killing in Mississippi.
(d) He regrets the killing in Clanton.

5. Ellen has done a masterful job of the M'Naghten brief, summarizing what into seventy-five pages directly applicable to the Hailey trial?
(a) A half century of legal history.
(b) A quarter century of legal history.
(c) A century of legal history.
(d) A century and a half of legal history.

Short Answer Questions

1. Days before the trial, Gwen Hailey calls Jake and informs him she is behind on house payments, the utilities might be shut off, and has only received how much from the church council?

2. When Jake and Buckley are in the judge's office the day before the arraignment, what does the former request?

3. After her refusal to give the juror list to Jake, what does Jean Gillespie do when he reminds her of previously helping with her family and her reelection?

4. How does Jake Brigance view the Carl Lee Hailey murder trial?

5. What is Clanton doing to prepare for the national spotlight a week before the Carl Lee trial?

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