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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What highway did Stevenson travel to speak with someone on death row?

3. What was the nickanme that McMillian's family had given him?

4. Where did Stevenson go to law school?

5. How much older was Walter McMilian than Stevenson?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happened to Lourida Ruffin?

4. Where was McMillian's house?

5. Who was Steve Bright?

6. Why was Charlie arrested?

7. In Chapter 2, what did a man in a wheelchair tell Stevenson were his medals of honor?

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

9. What happened to Charlie after Stevenson got involved?

10. What did McMillian's house look like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Stevenson noticed how history played a role in justice. How did Stevenson see the way that history influenced the American justice system? How did history continue to influence the justice system? How did that affect the cases that Stevenson worked on?

Essay Topic 2

The deep South had Jim Crow and anti-miscegentation statutes on the books well into the twentieth century. What were some of the things that were forbidden by the statutes? What was the purpose of those statutes? How were the statutes related to racism?

Essay Topic 3

Stevenson struggled during his first year of law school. What were his struggles? How did the Socratic method increase his struggles? How did he overcome his struggles and continue on in law school?

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