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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. How many children did Stevenson's grandmother have?

2. In Chapter 1, how many volumes were there of trial proceedings from Walter McMillian's trial?

3. When was the ban on interracial marriage eliminated?

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

5. Where did many of the black people work where Stevenson grew up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of business did Walter McMillian establish and how well did it prosper?

2. What did McMillian's house look like?

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

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

5. What was McMillians alibi for the time of the murder?

6. Where was the SPDC located, and what were the working conditions like when Stevenson worked there?

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

8. What was the visitation room like where Stevenson met Henry?

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

10. What happened to Charlie after Stevenson got involved?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Stevenson worked to reveal and eliminate flaws in the justice system. What flaws did he encounter as he worked on cases? How was he able to eliminate some of those flaws and obtain justice?

Essay Topic 2

Stevenson began to realize that everyone is broken. In what ways did Stevenson see brokenness in people? How did Stevenson believe that brokenness could lead to hope, mercy, and compassion for one’s self and for others?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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