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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. How does Jake feel when a patron in the Coffee Shop notes that the black protesters must frighten the jurors?
(a) He hopes they do.
(b) He hopes they don't.
(c) He is uncertain.
(d) He hopes there will be no further bloodshed.

2. 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.

3. Some of the patrons in the Coffee Shop speculate what about a reporter from the Channel 4 News?
(a) If she will report anything positive about Clanton.
(b) The makeup she is wearing.
(c) The source of her information.
(d) Where she received her training.

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

5. Who aids Ellen following her plight?
(a) Deputy Nesbitt.
(b) Ozzie.
(c) "Mickey Mouse."
(d) Jake.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How does Carla learn about the all-white jurors in the case?

3. Following Jake's closing before the jury, he and Lucien are drinking on Lucien's front porch where Deputy Nesbit helps himself to what?

4. What is the jury's decision?

5. Who do the Northern Mississippi black residents recognize as the single white radical NAACP attorney in their region?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Just past midnight of the day Dr. Bass was questioned, what does Jake discover when driven to his home due to an emergency?

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

4. What happens on the Saturday morning when "Mickey Mouse" tips Ozzie the Klan plan a multi-state retaliation for the Thursday riot?

5. Why is Jake essentially lost in court the day he returned after being shot at?

6. What happens between Jake and Ellen on the balcony of Jake's office?

7. How do Harry Rex's pickup and Jake's Saab reflect more than a matter of taste, but of personality?

8. What does Jake when the National Guard arrive?

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

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