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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many lawyers had Stevenson met before he started law school?
(a) None.
(b) 6 or 7.
(c) 1 or 2.
(d) 5 or 6.

2. In Chapter 3, who was a young African American man who was lynched in Mobile?
(a) Peter Andrews.
(b) Daniel Rivers.
(c) Michael Donald.
(d) Tom Watson.

3. In Chapter 6, how did George's first wife and child die?
(a) Hit-and-run accident.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Car accident.
(d) Armed robbery.

4. How many volts of electricity pass through the body of a prisoner in the electric chair?
(a) 1,600.
(b) 1,700.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 1,900.

5. Where did many of the black people work where Stevenson grew up?
(a) Steel factories.
(b) Poultry plant.
(c) Farms.
(d) Mines.

6. Where did Stevenson go to law school?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) Yale.
(d) Stanford.

7. When did W.E.B. Du Bois write The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1938.

8. How old was McMillian when he was able to run a plow very well?
(a) 12.
(b) 11.
(c) 13.
(d) 14.

9. When did Stevenson and Eva Ansley discover an opportunity to get federal funding to create a legal center to represent people on death row in Alabama?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1991.

10. By what decade had McMillian developed a solid business?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1990s.

11. What type of vehicle was Stevenson driving in Chapter 5?
(a) Caprice.
(b) Grand Caravan.
(c) Silverado.
(d) Corolla.

12. Where in Alabama did Stevenson plan to open an office in Chapter 1?
(a) Montgomery.
(b) Mobile.
(c) Tuscaloosa.
(d) Birmingham.

13. Where was the SPDC located when Stevenson started his internship?
(a) Nashville.
(b) Baton Rouge.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Greenville.

14. In Chapter 3, how long were death row inmates locked in a small cell by themselves daily?
(a) 20 hours.
(b) 18 hours.
(c) 23 hours.
(d) 15 hours.

15. Where did Stevenson's mother work?
(a) Food factory.
(b) School as a janitor.
(c) Air Force Base.
(d) Wealthy homes as a domestic.

Short Answer Questions

1. When McMillian was taken to death row in Chapter 3, what percent of prisoners on death row were white?

2. In Chapter 2, who told Stevenson that he needed "to beat the drum for justice"?

3. At the time Stevenson wrote the book, how much money was being spent on jails and prisons by state and federal governments?

4. When Earl MGahee was tried by an all-white jury in Dallas County, what percent of the county was African American?

5. In Chapter 3, what was the name of the jailhouse snitch who claimed he had seen McMillian's truck outside of Jackson's Cleaners?

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