Quizzes

How much do you know about law and literature? Test your knowledge by answering the following questions.

1. In Charles Dickens' book Bleak House, there was a 40-year legal proceeding involving:

1. murder case
2. divorce
3. real estate boundary dispute
4. probate proceeding

2. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, later made into a movie, Gregory Peck's character was a courageous lawyer named

1. Horatio Hanson
2. Isaiah Crumpwell
3. Atticus Finch
4. Wilson Sommers

3. In the autobiographical book Catch Me if You Can, made into a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, the lead character was a:

1. Mobster
2. Check forger
3. Corrupt politician
4. Disbarred attorney

4. The phrase, 'let's just kill all the lawyers,' appears in a play written by:

1. William Shakespeare
2. Thornton Wilder
3. Neil Simon
4. Eugene O'Neill

5. Oliver Wendell Holmes, before he became a Supreme Court Justice, wrote a book about the development of the law entitled:

1. A Law We Have Learned
2. The Common Law
3. Restatement of the Law
4. All Sorts of Torts

6. After the O. J. Simpson criminal case, his attorney, Johnnie Cochrane wrote an autobiographical book entitled:

1. Race and Reason
2. Miles to Go
3. Journey to Justice
4. My Trials and Tribulations