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Quiz about Grisham  Plots and Titles
Quiz about Grisham  Plots and Titles

Grisham - Plots and Titles Trivia Quiz


Ten questions outlining the plots of various John Grisham novels. Read the plot and identify the title of the book. Contains some spoilers!

A multiple-choice quiz by deepakmr. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
deepakmr
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
280,405
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
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2363
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Top 10% Quiz
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Question 1 of 10
1. Set in the '70s in Mississippi, this novel features a 23 year old college dropout Willie Traynor who becomes owner and editor of a newspaper, Ford Country Times. This novel is the story of Callie Ruffin, the first black voter of the county and features more than one killing! Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Adam Hall is 26 years old and in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer can ask. His client is an outspoken racist with a violent past who is on death row. But Adam desperately wants the case! Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Clay Carter works for the office of the public defender. He works there not because he wants to work for a cause, but simply because he has no other job. He finally finds a case of a young man charged with a street killing. The case leads him on to dizzy levels of success. Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. A young boy chances on a suicide and uncovers a secret that could kill both him and his lawyer. The prosecutors are willing to break all rules and the mob will stop at nothing. Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. A story of three judges running a scam from jail. When their scam nets none other than the future President of the USA, the CIA moves in to protect their candidate. Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Rudi Baylor is a young lawyer who does yard work in exchange for rent. He gets a case where he has to take on a heavyweight corporate defence team. A case that started small explodes into a million-dollar war of lies and nerves. Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. A case involving a war against a tobacco company. Rankin Fitch seems to have the case in control, but then Nicholas Easter steps into the jury box and suddenly everything is out of control for the master manipulator Fitch. Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Michael Brock works with a giant DC law firm and is one step away from partnership, when an incident occurs that changes his life. He leaves the firm with a confidential file and unravels a conspiracy that has already taken many lives. Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Set in Mississippi, a black man is on trial before an all-white jury. The black man is accused of murdering the white men who raped his small girl. Jake Brigance has to not only save his client from death row but also save his own life. Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Patrick Lanigan steals ninety million dollars from his own firm and flees to Brazil. But he is tracked down and brought back to court for trial. Reviled as a white collar criminal, Lanigan knows a secret that no one else knows. Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Set in the '70s in Mississippi, this novel features a 23 year old college dropout Willie Traynor who becomes owner and editor of a newspaper, Ford Country Times. This novel is the story of Callie Ruffin, the first black voter of the county and features more than one killing!

Answer: The Last Juror

'The Last Juror' is about Traynor's relation with Callie Ruffin, how he profiles and becomes close to her family and involves a court case where the convicted threatens to kill all the jurors. The novel ends with Ms.Callie's death and Traynor writing the obituary.
2. Adam Hall is 26 years old and in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer can ask. His client is an outspoken racist with a violent past who is on death row. But Adam desperately wants the case!

Answer: The Chamber

'The Chamber' is about the death penalty and Adam Hall's relation with his grandfather - a racist and convicted mother. A novel which questions the death penalty and will make the most hardened death penalty advocate change his views!
3. Clay Carter works for the office of the public defender. He works there not because he wants to work for a cause, but simply because he has no other job. He finally finds a case of a young man charged with a street killing. The case leads him on to dizzy levels of success.

Answer: The King of Torts

Clay Carter takes up a case which leads him on to such heights of success, that he becomes the King of Torts !
4. A young boy chances on a suicide and uncovers a secret that could kill both him and his lawyer. The prosecutors are willing to break all rules and the mob will stop at nothing.

Answer: The Client

'The Client' features Mark Sway and his lawyer Reggie Love. Mark knows the secret of a don and puts his family's life in peril. Finally, the novel ends with the don in jail and the client and his family taken to safety.
5. A story of three judges running a scam from jail. When their scam nets none other than the future President of the USA, the CIA moves in to protect their candidate.

Answer: The Brethren

'The Brethren' features three judges in jail who snare in a leading US Presidential candidate in their scam. The CIA which is trying to place the candidate of their choice in the White House has to first deal with the Brethren! The novel ends happily for everyone.
6. Rudi Baylor is a young lawyer who does yard work in exchange for rent. He gets a case where he has to take on a heavyweight corporate defence team. A case that started small explodes into a million-dollar war of lies and nerves.

Answer: The Rainmaker

"The Rainmaker" features an insurance dispute, where a mother whose son died of cancer after being denied insurance benefits takes on the big insurance company. Baylor is the rainmaker who gets a million dollar judgment in his favour.
7. A case involving a war against a tobacco company. Rankin Fitch seems to have the case in control, but then Nicholas Easter steps into the jury box and suddenly everything is out of control for the master manipulator Fitch.

Answer: The Runaway Jury

Gabrielle's parents die of smoking and she teams up with Nicholas Easter to teach a lesson to the tobacco company. Nicholas becomes a juror in the case and manipulates the case against the tobacco giants.
8. Michael Brock works with a giant DC law firm and is one step away from partnership, when an incident occurs that changes his life. He leaves the firm with a confidential file and unravels a conspiracy that has already taken many lives.

Answer: The Street Lawyer

After witnessing the killing of a hobo who takes him and his fellow lawyers hostage, Brock becomes a street lawyer. Brock fights for the rights of the homeless and takes on his old partners.
9. Set in Mississippi, a black man is on trial before an all-white jury. The black man is accused of murdering the white men who raped his small girl. Jake Brigance has to not only save his client from death row but also save his own life.

Answer: A Time to Kill

This is Grisham's first novel and probably his best. Featuring a case of vigilante justice, the novel features Jake's battle to save his client from the gallows. He wins and becomes a hero, but not before he loses his home and almost loses his life.
10. Patrick Lanigan steals ninety million dollars from his own firm and flees to Brazil. But he is tracked down and brought back to court for trial. Reviled as a white collar criminal, Lanigan knows a secret that no one else knows.

Answer: The Partner

'The Partner' features Patrick Lanigan who is caught by his enemies and tortured to make him return the ninety million dollars he has looted. In the end, it is revealed that Lanigan wanted to come back so he got caught by his enemies voluntarily. In the end, Lanigan is cheated by his partner and ends up losing everything he had.
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