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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Willie put in his article that he knows will get him a 'slap on the wrist'.
(a) A picture of a grieving mother
(b) Negative talk about the president
(c) Picture of a black soldier
(d) Bad language

2. What piece of evidence is presented that had belonged to Danny Padgitt?
(a) His knife
(b) His blood soaked shoes
(c) His bloody shirt
(d) His bloody blue jeans

3. Why does Baggy say the family has decided to leave the trial in their hometown?
(a) They can drive to the trial easier
(b) They don't have the money to go through all the steps
(c) They can buy the jury there
(d) So that Danny will be closer to home

4. What story does Willie run that many of his staff members are not happy with?
(a) The story of crooked politicians
(b) Rhonda's life story
(c) The Padgitt family story
(d) The Ruffin family story

5. How long does it take to get the verdict back?
(a) Less than an hour
(b) Four hours
(c) Two days
(d) Half a day

6. How did Mr. DeJarnette die?
(a) Drown
(b) Fell into a logging machine
(c) Heart attack
(d) Committed suicide

7. Who goes back to the office with Willie to await the jury's verdict?
(a) The district attorney
(b) Baggs
(c) Ginger
(d) Harry Rex

8. What do Willie and Wiley hear a lot of while they are sitting at the table in the dinner?
(a) About Rhonda's life and troubles
(b) About Danny Padgitt's past offenses
(c) About the Padgitt family history
(d) About the rape and murder

9. What does the funeral home directer tell Willie when Willie says that his landlord, Mr. Magargel, is dead?
(a) To make sure he isn't just sleeping
(b) That he has sleep apnea
(c) It is about time
(d) That he always looks dead

10. Who does Willy expect to see at his office after the trial is over?
(a) Harry Rex
(b) Callie
(c) Ginger
(d) The district attorney

11. What did Baggy say the Padgitt family was trying to do?
(a) Make Willie leave town
(b) Draw attention away from Danny
(c) Intimidate the paper
(d) Kill Willie

12. What happens to the newspaper after Willie's second story in Chapter 6?
(a) The revenue doubles
(b) They sell out of papers
(c) Willie is forced to add another reporter
(d) The paper gets sued

13. What does Willie begin covering for the schools?
(a) Basketball games
(b) Football games
(c) Band competitions
(d) Honor student role

14. Why do the rumors in the town say that the district attorney had made his request?
(a) To keep word of the trial from leaking out
(b) To make it harder to buy a jury
(c) To stop gossip
(d) To make it harder for Danny to escape

15. Who makes fun of Willie's new wardrobe?
(a) Callie
(b) Harry Rex
(c) Baggs
(d) Wiley Meek

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Danny Padgitt's lawyer make a motion for?

2. What does Willie Traynor learn about that makes him decide to go to work in a small town paper?

3. The morning the paper comes out what is Willie at the Court House for?

4. Who is called as a witness that gives a very upsetting testimony?

5. What does Lydia's ex-husband say is the reason they were divorcing?

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