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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Testimony.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jesse Ward dies from __________.
(a) A heart attack.
(b) Lung disease.
(c) A car accident.
(d) Cancer.

2. What is the setting of The Dreams of Ada in Chapter 1?
(a) Ada, Tennessee.
(b) Ada, Alabama.
(c) Ada, Oklahoma.
(d) Ada, West Virginia.

3. What is written on the black and white wooden sign that is described in Chapter 1?
(a) No outlet.
(b) Home of the pecan tree.
(c) Pecan cracker.
(d) Welcome to Ada.

4. Who writes, "I had a dream that I was at a keg party, then poof I was sitting in a pickup with two guys and a girl"?
(a) Jason Lurke.
(b) Karl Fontenot.
(c) Tommy Ward.
(d) Bud Wolf.

5. What does the phrase "corpus delicti" in a murder case refer to?
(a) The presence of a body.
(b) Placed on probation.
(c) A written statement made under oath.
(d) Postponement of a court session.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, about every ________ there is a murder in Ada.

2. How many days after Ward and Fontenot are arrested are they formally charged?

3. All of the following are reasons why detectives are convinced Tommy Ward killed Denice Haraway, EXCEPT which one?

4. Whose favorite expression is "listen to me, runnin' my mouth ninety-to-nothin'" ?

5. Who asks George Butner to represent Karl Fontenot as his court-appointed attorney?

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