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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long had Stevenson been working for SPDC when he met Walter McMillian?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 6 years.
(d) 3 years.

2. By what decade had McMillian developed a solid business?
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1970s.

3. How long were Tony Pace and Mary Cox sentenced to prison for violating Alabama's racial integrity laws?
(a) 18 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 5 years.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, who was a young African American man who was lynched in Mobile?

2. What did Stevenson study in college?

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

4. At the time Stevenson wrote the book, how much money was being spent on jails and prisons by state and federal governments?

5. When was McMillian arrested?

(see the answer key)

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