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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Bright grow up?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) South Carolina.

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

4. When did the Supreme Curt rule that underrepresentation of racial minorities and women in jury pools was unconstitutional?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1970s.

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

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

7. In Chapter 1, how many volumes were there of trial proceedings from Walter McMillian's trial?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

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

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

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

11. Where did Stevenson go to college?
(a) Colorado.
(b) Iowa.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Pennsylvania.

12. In Chapter 3, what was the name of the jailhouse snitch who claimed he had seen McMillian's truck outside of Jackson's Cleaners?
(a) Bill Hooks.
(b) Matt Wilson.
(c) Bob Miller.
(d) Ted Dansig.

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

14. In Chapter 6, how long had George lived with Charlie and his mother?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 18 months.
(d) 3 years.

15. In Chapter 3, how large were the cells where death row inmates were housed?
(a) 5 by 10 feet.
(b) 6 by 9 feet.
(c) 5 by 8 feet.
(d) 6 by 11 feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Stevenson's mother work?

2. What did Stevenson study in college?

3. When was McMillian arrested?

4. How much older was Walter McMilian than Stevenson?

5. When did the Supreme Court uphold the death penalty for juveniles?

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