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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15, 16, and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the late nineteenth century, who were responsible for getting the mentally ill out of prison?
(a) Millie Davis and Reverend Jeff Erickson.
(b) Dorothea Dix and Reverend Louis Dwight.
(c) Peggy Andrews and Reverend David Scott.
(d) Louise Ransom and Reverend Scott Andrews.

2. How many people died by the end of the Attica standoff?
(a) 39.
(b) 42.
(c) 27.
(d) 53.

3. In Chapter 12, how many of the women on Alabama's death row were condemned for deaths of their young children or the deaths of abusive spouses or boyfriends?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 7.

4. When did Stevenson and Eva Ansley discover an opportunity to get federal funding to create a legal center to represent people on death row in Alabama?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1990.

5. Where did Stevenson grow up?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Delaware.
(d) New Jersey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Clarence Brantley from?

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

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

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

5. How long were Minnie McMillian's shifts at the plant in Chapter 5?

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