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A Time to Kill Quiz #1

1 What kind of car does Billy Ray Cobb drive?
A flashy red Saab

A new yellow pickup truck

A black BMW

A yellow Hummer H2
2 How long did Cobb spend in Parchman Penitentiary?
One year

Five years

Three years

Three months
3 What does Billy Ray Cobb do for a living?
Line cook

Sells narcotics

Insurance fraud

Tax lawyer
4 How old is Tonya Hailey at the beginning of the novel?
Fourteen

Ten

Eight

Twelve
5 Who does Tonya think she sees in the woods while Cobb and Willard sleep?
Carl Lee Jr.

Gwen

Carl Lee

Jake Brigance
6 What is Tonya doing when she is picked up by Cobb and Willard?
Walking home from school

Walking home with a bag of groceries

Playing hopscotch with her friends

Selling oranges by the freeway
7 How many Black sheriffs are there in Mississippi at the time the novel is set?
Two

Nine

One

Five
8 What percentage of the population of Ford County is white?
45

60

74

88
9 What part of Sheriff Walls' past most contributes to his popularity?
He was a college football start

He was a college baseball star

He is a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War

He has a record of being particularly harsh on Black suspects
10 Who is Bumpous?
A friend of Bille Ray's

A C.I. for Ozzie Walls

The owner of a local Greek restaurant

A founding member of the Clanton chapter of the Ku Klux Klan
11 What does Walls ask Bumpous to do in the honky tonk?
Spy on Lester Hailey

Buy Cobb drinks until he openly talks about raping Tonya Hailey

Antagonize Cobb until he attacks him, so they can arrest Cobb for assault

Kill Cobb
12 What did a group of local ministers beg Ozzie to do after he took office?
Re-open the honky tonks

Offer leniency to pastors who are arrested

Defund the police

Fundraise for the churches
13 An affidavit is...
a court order to search a premises

a type of marsh-dwelling insect

a request submitted by a lawyer to be approved by a judge

a sworn, written statement for use as evidence in court
14 When Jake is first introduced, what is he most stressed about while getting ready for work?
Male-pattern baldness

Financial problems with his firm

Race relations in Clanton

Repainting their house
15 Jake's neighbor's name is...
Gwen Hailey

Mrs. Pickles

Mrs. Mustard

Lucien Wilbanks
16 How many children do Carla and Jake have together?
Three

One and another on the way

Four

One
17 Hanna is how old?
Ten

Fourteen

Four

Five
18 Jake's home is one of two homes in Ford County that...
was built by Frank Lloyd Wright

is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

is painted pink

was built before the Civil War
19 What street does Jake live on?
Washington St.

Jefferson Ave.

Adams St.

Grant St.
20 What is Jake's favorite breakfast spot in Clanton?
The Coffee Shop

Claude's

The Hollywood

The Tea Shoppe
21 Where are Cobb and Willard arrested?
They turn themselves in after sobering up

At Cobb's mother's house

Huey's honky-tonk

At Willard's mother's house
22 If they were given maximum sentences, how long would it have been before Cobb and Willard could've been paroled?
They were not eligible for parole due to the nature of their crimes

Thirteen years

Ten years

Seven years
23 When was Lucien disbarred?
1964

1981

1979

1969
24 What replaces the Wilbanks firm as the biggest corporate firm in town?
The Palms Firm

The Buckley Firm

Brigance's firm

The Sullivan Firm
25 Whose portrait does Jake have hanging above his desk?
Robert E. Lee

Donald Barthelme

William Faulkner

George Washington

Why does a portrait of William Faulkner hang in Attorney Brigance's office?

We are not told exactly why the portrait is hanging over the rolltop desk, but we can infer that Jake is a fan of the author.

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Answered by jill d #170087 on 11/29/2021 4:27 PM

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What does Lucien mean when he says “You can win this case, and justice will prevail. but lose, and justice will also prevail”?

From the movie script:

If Brigance wins the case, justice will prevail because Carl Lee Hailey will be acquitted and if Brigance loses the case, justice will still prevail because he fought for what he believed was right and did his best to defend...

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Answered by jill d #170087 on 9/8/2023 8:52 AM

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The night of Stump Sisson's death, the KKK meet in the woods, pledge revenge, and induct how many new Klan members from ford county?

From the text:

Immediately, word of his death reached the cabin deep in the woods where the patriots met, ate. and drank each night after the trial. Revenge, they vowed, an eye tor an eye and so on. There were new recruits from Ford County—five in...

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Answered by jill d #170087 on 6/26/2023 11:05 AM

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