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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What item or items are found on the floor around Mr. Nesbitt's body?
(a) Cartons of cigarettes.
(b) Bloody gloves.
(c) Pill bottles.
(d) Food containers.

2. What time do visiting hours start on Sundays?
(a) 10 A.M.
(b) 4 P.M.
(c) 9 A.M.
(d) 1 P.M.

3. In which prison or jail is Bobo serving time?
(a) Greenwich.
(b) Greenhaven.
(c) Green Pastures.
(d) Grenington.

4. When was Mr. Nesbitt's gun registered?
(a) Never. It was illegal.
(b) August, 1989.
(c) August, 1999.
(d) August, 1995.

5. Steve describes his fear of getting raped or beaten as what kind of object?
(a) A little ball in his stomach.
(b) A piece of glass in his heart.
(c) A balloon in his stomach.
(d) A key in his stomach.

6. How is Moore related to Bobo?
(a) She is Bobo's aunt.
(b) She is Bobo's sister.
(c) They are cousins.
(d) She is Bobo's grandmother.

7. When Bobo comes into the courtroom to testify and the lawyers are discussing him with the judge, what does the judge say he looks like?
(a) A lunatic.
(b) A basket case.
(c) A crazy person.
(d) A nut job.

8. Which lawyer requests a sidebar when Bobo enters the courtroom to testify?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Briggs.
(c) O'Brien.
(d) Petrocelli.

9. Why, according to Bobo, is he in jail?
(a) Grand theft auto.
(b) Fraud.
(c) Selling drugs.
(d) Petty larceny.

10. In the screenplay scene Steve writes just after his mother leaves, what does King say he "just needs" in order to commit the robbery?
(a) A lookout.
(b) A knife.
(c) A lockpick.
(d) A gun.

11. How is King's verdict communicated to the reader?
(a) With a voice over.
(b) Through a close-up shot of the foreman.
(c) With a newspaper headline.
(d) Guards handcuff him.

12. Where does Steve see Jerry on Sunday, July 12?
(a) At church.
(b) In the mess hall.
(c) In the visitor's room.
(d) Through the window.

13. What happens during the church service on Sunday, July 12th?
(a) A minister is killed.
(b) A fight breaks out.
(c) A prisoner escapes.
(d) Steve is beaten.

14. What does Steve's mother do when the verdict is read?
(a) She yells.
(b) She cries.
(c) She lifts up her hands and closes her eyes.
(d) She slams her fist on the table.

15. What, according to Bobo, is a "heavy and a half"?
(a) Life with parole.
(b) Life without parole.
(c) Twenty five years to life.
(d) Seven and a half to ten years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the prisoners have for breakfast on Sunday, July 12th?

2. What does O'Brien say she will do over the weekend of Saturday, July 11?

3. How does Petrocelli frame Doctor Moody's answer about the cause of death?

4. Who is the first person to tell Steve and King that they have a verdict?

5. What does Steve say about the pictures of Mr. Nesbitt?

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