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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. What was the name of McMillian's wife?
(a) Sally.
(b) Peggy.
(c) Minnie.
(d) Rachel.

2. When McMillian was taken to death row in Chapter 3, what percent of prisoners on death row were white?
(a) 20%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 15%.

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

4. In Chapter 6, who was Charlie accused of killing?
(a) His father.
(b) An intruder to his home.
(c) A school mate.
(d) His mother's boyfriend.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 3, what was the name of the jailhouse snitch who claimed he had seen McMillian's truck outside of Jackson's Cleaners?

3. How many people died by the end of the Attica standoff?

4. How much did Stevenson say that he made a year in Chapter 2?

5. In Chapter 6, how long had George lived with Charlie and his mother?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What murder shocked Monroevill in 1986?

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

4. What did McMillian's house look like?

5. As Stevenson spent time with McMillian, what did he learn about the man?

6. Who was Steve Bright?

7. What iwas Monroeville, Alabama, known for?

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

9. What happened to Lourida Ruffin?

10. In Chapter 3, what happened to a young African American man named Michael Donald?

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