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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 and 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Judge Key say that Walter McMillian might be a part of?
(a) Florida Mafia.
(b) Dixie Mafia.
(c) Georgia Mafia.
(d) Cafish Mafia.

3. Where did Stevenson meet Steve Bright, director of the SPDC?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Charlotte.
(d) Decatur.

4. When was the ban on interracial marriage eliminated?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1989.
(d) 2000.

5. At the time Stevenson wrote the book, how much money was being spent on jails and prisons by state and federal governments?
(a) $6.9 billion.
(b) $60 billion.
(c) $80 billion.
(d) $8.4 billion.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were incarcerated in the early 1970s?

2. In Chapter 1, when was the receptionist planning to leave to work in a real law office?

3. Where did Stevenson say that Georgia's death row was in the Introduction?

4. Where did many of the black people work where Stevenson grew up?

5. When did the State of Idaho ban interracial marriage?

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