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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the nickanme that McMillian's family had given him?
(a) The Walton.
(b) Johnny D.
(c) Walt Man.
(d) Bobby B.

3. In Chapter 4, when was the building built that Stevenson rented for his new law center?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1894.

4. 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) 70 percent.
(c) 40 percent.
(d) 55 percent.

5. In Chapter 5, how long had it been since McMillian's arrest?
(a) 18 months.
(b) 15 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 12 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of McMillian's wife?

2. In Chapter 3, where did Myers say that McMillian made him drive?

3. What was the name of the couple who began corresponding with Charlie?

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

5. When did W.E.B. Du Bois write The Souls of Black Folk?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Stevenson describe his preparation to meet a condemned man in 1983?

2. Why did Stevenson live with Steve Bright when he first worked in Atlanta?

3. Where was McMillian's house?

4. What did Stevenson study in college, and why did he decide to attend law school?

5. Why did Stevenson worry that he made the wrong choice when he began classes at Harvard?

6. What was Myers's version of the murder of Ronda Morrison?

7. Who was Steve Bright?

8. Why did Judige Robert E. Lee Key call Stevenson?

9. Why did Michael Lindsey receive a death penalty instead of life imprisonment?

10. Why did Horace Dunkins' execution make national news?

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