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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. What does Nico ask Rusty when he sees him in the restroom?
(a) If he killed Carolyn.
(b) If he knows who killed Carolyn.
(c) If he thinks he will like prison.
(d) If he thinks Sandy is doing a good job on his case.

2. Why will Horgan testify against Rusty?
(a) To keep his own name in the news.
(b) To get revenge for Rusty ruining his career.
(c) To make sure Rusty never gets elected to office.
(d) To get revenge for Rusty seducing his wife.

3. Marty does not tell the prosecutor that Rusty had an affair with his mother because _________________________.
(a) he doesn't think his mother had any affairs.
(b) he doesn't think Rusty is the murderer.
(c) he is not sure about what to say yet.
(d) Rusty paid him for his silence.

4. What does Rusty find on a large iron tool in the basement of his house?
(a) Bloody fingerprints.
(b) Dried semen.
(c) Blood and skin.
(d) Blood and hair.

5. At the beginning of Chapter 37, Rusty is thrilled at being free but is also _________________.
(a) bitter because of what he endured.
(b) sad because he misses Carolyn.
(c) incredulous that he wasn't convicted.
(d) angry that Carolyn's murderer is still at large.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 32 opens with a battle in court over the prosecution's continued failure to _____________________.

2. Why did Sandy continually bring up the introduction of the B file into evidence during the trial?

3. Where do Rusty and Sandy have lunch at the beginning of Chapter 29?

4. Under the adversity of Rusty's trial, his relationship with Barbara _________________________.

5. Rusty notes that the atmosphere in the courtroom on the first day of the trial is ___________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the elements that foreshadow an easier road than anticipated to Rusty's acquittal?

2. What incriminating information does Leon Wells give to Rusty and Lip about Carolyn and Larren Lyttle?

3. Why does Della Guardia want Molto to testify in the case? What does Dr. Robinson say regarding Rusty's ever confessing murder to him?

4. How does Sandy ruin Dr. Kumagai's career due to his testimony regarding the contraceptive jelly found with the sperm sample?

5. How do the testimonies of Eugenia, Mrs. Krapotnik and Horgan practically guarantee an acquittal for Rusty?

6. Describe the encounter between Rusty and Della Guardia several weeks after the trial?

7. What does Rusty recall about washing the murder weapon and how does Barbara behave to let the reader know that she is the murderer?

8. Why is the end of the trial so unsettling for the reader?

9. What does Rusty deduce about why Sandy was considering entering the B file into the trial?

10. What instruction does Judge Lyttle give to the jury regarding the missing glass and what does the fingerprint expert admit about other prints at the crime scene?

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