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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people were incarcerated in the early 1970s?
(a) 300,000.
(b) 2.3 million.
(c) 400,000.
(d) 1.5 million.

2. When did the State of Idaho ban interracial marriage?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1884.
(d) 1911.

3. 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) 1988.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1987.

4. When Earl MGahee was tried by an all-white jury in Dallas County, what percent of the county was African American?
(a) 55 percent.
(b) 60 percent.
(c) 70 percent.
(d) 40 percent.

5. Where did Stevenson grow up?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) Delaware.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) Pennsylvania.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where did Stevenson go to law school?

4. In the weeks before Stevenson received a call from Judge Key, how many condemened men did he meet?

5. In Chapter 3, who was a young African American man who was lynched in Mobile?

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