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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the phone rings while Harry Rex and Jake are discussing legal matters on the morning before the trial, what happens?
(a) Jake angrily responds to a hate call and slams the phone down.
(b) Jake ignores it, allowing it to ring before it finally stops.
(c) Jake answers the call and advises the caller the line is tapped.
(d) Harry Rex humorously deflects a hate call aimed at Jake.

2. Although Jake wished he had not worn ostrich skin boots, Lucien argues what?
(a) The boots went well with Bass's suit
(b) The boots were expensive and showed class.
(c) Ostrich skin boots reflected style.
(d) The jury would relate to boots.

3. While they await the jury's verdict from Jake's office, what does Lucien confirm as he spins tales regarding his family's heritage?
(a) Ethel's daughter was Lucien's half-sister who died shortly after birth.
(b) Ethel is his mother.
(c) Ethel's retarded son is his half-brother.
(d) As a teen, his family paid his first love's family to move away.

4. What questions does Jake ask of Cobb's and Willard's respective mothers during cross-examination?
(a) Jake opted not to cross-examine.
(b) How many convictions did their sons have respectively?
(c) How many other children their sons raped, was Cobb convicted of selling marijuana?
(d) Has either been convicted of rape?

5. When Jake objects as Lucien broaches the topic of buying a jury, the latter reminds him of what?
(a) He has few morals and can get money for the hung jury from friends.
(b) He has no morals and can raise the money from friends.
(c) The other side is playing dirty, so Jake needs to as well.
(d) He has more money than he cares for and no morals or ethics.

6. Why is Lucien furious on the morning of the shooting attempt to kill Jake?
(a) The National Guard colonel waited before senting someone to check.
(b) The National Guard did not check out the silo amongst other locations.
(c) That someone has attempted to take Jake's life.
(d) He has kept Dr. Bass sober all night and his testimony will be postponed.

7. What happens to Ellen on her way to Oxford on the evening of the shooting?
(a) She has a motor vehicle accident.
(b) She is intentionally run off the road by a pickup truck.
(c) She is intentionally run off the road by a sedan.
(d) She is pulled over by a vehicle with flashing blue lights.

8. What happens when Carl Lee opens a courtroom window with a small balcony and the deputy nods?
(a) Carl Lee steps onto the balcony, waves, and the crowd surges.
(b) Carl Lee, Tonya, and the boys step onto the balcony, wave, and the crowd surges.
(c) Carl Lee has second thoughts for safety, and watches inside from the window.
(d) Carl Lee steps onto the balcony, and can see KKK on their "turf."

9. Where does Judge Noose advise the jurors they will be sequestered?
(a) They will not be sequestered, but are not to discuss the case with anyone.
(b) They will be sequestered in the courthouse with National Guard security.
(c) In a motel outside Clanton.
(d) In the Clanton Inn on Main Street.

10. At 5:00 a.m. Harry Rex arrives with biscuit sandwiches sent by Jake's favorite waitress at the Coffee Shop, and he discusses with Jake:
(a) Ellen Roark's credentials.
(b) Prospects for a temporary insanity plea.
(c) His motion for change of venue.
(d) Potential jurors once again.

11. Jake knows Judge Noose will feel how about the National Guard being called in?
(a) Wishing he had been consulted, but not upset.
(b) Understanding it is the mayor's job to ensure city safety, not the judge's.
(c) Glad that another measure to ensure safety was taken.
(d) Furious that he was not consulted.

12. When the jury is impaneled, Jake, Harry Rex, and Ellen are in agreement about what?
(a) It is not as bad as was expected.
(b) They are uncertain about some of the members.
(c) Things do not look well.
(d) It is much better than expected.

13. What are the bored jurors doing by the evening of the third day after the phones have been removed from their rooms?
(a) Reading magazines, buying sodas from a machine, and playing cards.
(b) Cooling off in the motel pool, drinking sodas, and playing cards.
(c) Buying sodas from a machine, playing cards, and discussing the case.
(d) Swimming in the motel pool, reading magazines, and playing cards.

14. What is Lucien's advice to Jake regarding fear?
(a) Jake has prepared well, and so he need not worry.
(b) Take a healty shot of bourbon to calm his nerves.
(c) Put it out of his mind and concentrate on legal matters.
(d) He should welcome it, as jurors are afraid as well.

15. When Jake and Harry Rex arrive at the Memphis hospital to visit Ellen, her father, Sheldon Roark, explains what about the injuries to her head that required thirty-nine stitches?
(a) In the trunk, she beats head trying to summon help.
(b) Terrified she will be raped and killed, she beats head against a metal pole.
(c) In the trunk, she beats head trying to get free.
(d) She beats head after being covered by "Mickey Mouse," hoping for help.

Short Answer Questions

1. On Monday morning, Clanton is in "trial mode" as the Klan is happy having burned down Jake's home and what else?

2. When the jurors arrive the next morning for further deliberation, how are they taken from the bus to the courthouse?

3. When a juror is jumped by thugs at the Temple Inn, how is he threatened?

4. What question does Jake ask of Ozzie during cross-examination that Buckley wildly objects to and Jake withdraws, but Ozzie has already nodded affirmatively to?

5. How many black people does Lucien plan to bring to the courthouse and chant "Free Carl Lee"?

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