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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. 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) 1990.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1991.

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

3. How many children did Stevenson's grandmother have?
(a) 11.
(b) 8.
(c) 7.
(d) 9.

4. When did W.E.B. Du Bois write The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1938.

5. What was the nickanme that McMillian's family had given him?
(a) Bobby B.
(b) Johnny D.
(c) Walt Man.
(d) The Walton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where in Alabama did Stevenson plan to open an office in Chapter 1?

2. In Chapter 6, who was Charlie accused of killing?

3. How many people were incarcerated in the early 1970s?

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

5. How much older was Walter McMilian than Stevenson?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Stevenson live with Steve Bright when he first worked in Atlanta?

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

4. What murder shocked Monroevill in 1986?

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

6. What did McMillian's house look like?

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

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

9. Where did Stevenson grow up?

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

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