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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. As the Mississippi Imperial Wizard of the Klan speaks from the podium, there are 40 Klansmen marching at the courthouse and how many black people?
(a) Black people outnumber the Klan 5-1.
(b) Black people outnumber the Klan 15-1.
(c) Black people outnumber the Klan 10-1.
(d) Black people outnumber the Klan 2-1.

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

3. 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?
(a) Whether Pete Willard signed a confession prior to his death?
(b) Whether either Cobb or Willard signed a confession prior to death?
(c) Did Pete Willard agree to sign a confession for leniency prior to death?
(d) Did either verbally confess prior to death?

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

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

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 trial resumes following the brief recess, why does Jake decline to question Rodeheaver?

3. On Saturday morning following the shooting attack he survived, Jake surmises that both Lucien and Bass were drunk yesterday and driven home by Deputy Nesbit, and while he drinks a Bloody Mary, Jake prays what?

4. At one point, talk amongst the jurors gradually leads toward a guilty verdict, based essentially on what?

5. Following three hours of sleep on the morning of the trial, Jake bolts awake and has Deputy Nesbit do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What offer does Lucien make to Jake regarding the jury that he objects to?

2. On Monday, the first morning of the trial, what positions does Jake direct Ellen and Harry Rex, his two assistants, to assume?

3. What does the reader learn was key to the jury being swayed to finding an innocent by reason of insanity verdict?

4. How is Jake's closing argument indicative of it being his finest hour?

5. How does Grisham depict Jake's response to the soldier who is seriously injured for protecting him?

6. Why do the jurors feel more incarcerated than safe?

7. What happens when Ellen first arrives at Jake's office on the Sunday the National Guard arrives?

8. On the second day of the trial, what happens to Gerald Ault, Jake's "ace-in-the-hole"?

9. Beyond the cost of a human life and loss for loved ones and associates, what are some of the significant ramifications of Tim Nunley's death?

10. What does Jake do on the balcony of his office after he returns from the Coffee Shop on the day the jurors deliver their verdict?

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