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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15, 16, and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Stevenson's group win a constitutional ban on mandatory life-without-parole sentences imposed on children convicted of homicides?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2010.
(c) 2013.
(d) 2012.

2. How much time did Judge Norton want Stevenson and his staff to take to present McMillian's case?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 1 week.

3. How long was the trip Myers had to make from prison to the Baldwin County courthouse in Chapter 9?
(a) 3 hours.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 4 hours.
(d) 5 hours.

4. Where was Bernard Harcourt raised?
(a) Boston.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) New York City.
(d) Chicago.

5. By the end of 2009, what state had the nation's highest execution rate per capita?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Texas.
(d) Louisiana.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 11, how many bomb threats had their been in the last two months?

2. How old was the young man that his grandmother wanted Stevenson to speak to in Chapter 6?

3. Where did Stevenson go to college?

4. 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?

5. When Stevenson was a college student, what job did he have in a poor section of West Philadelphia?

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