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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. How old was Evan Miller when he began attempting to commit suicide?
(a) 7.
(b) 16.
(c) 11.
(d) 14.
2. How old was Judge Norton?
(a) 40s.
(b) 46.
(c) 50s.
(d) 58.
3. In Chapter 11, how many years ago had an African American civil rights lawyer in Savannah, Georgia, named Robert Robinson been murdered by a bomb exploding in his office?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.
4. What type of dog was in the courtroom on the second day of McMillian's case in Chapter 9?
(a) Rottweiler.
(b) Bloodhound.
(c) German Shepherd.
(d) Pit bull.
5. How much money was Stevenson able to get McMillian for being wrongly incarcerated?
(a) $450,000.
(b) About a half a million dollars.
(c) $300,000.
(d) A few hundred thousand dollars.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Harcourt do before going to law school?
2. In Chapter 12, where did Marsha Colbey and her husband go?
3. How many people before McMillian had been released from death row after being proved innocent?
4. Who was the mechanic that modified McMillian's truck?
5. How many people were on death row when Illinois Governor George Ryan commuted all death sentences?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Stevenson's office in Atlanta sue Angola Prison?
2. What was Michael O'Connor's background?
3. What campaign was lead by Dorothea Dix and Reverend Louis Wright in the late nineteenth century?
4. Why did McMillian have to quit his logging business?
5. Why was Marsha Colbey charged with capital murder?
6. What law was passed in Alabama in 2006 and what were its ramifications?
7. What was Joe Sullivan indicted for and why?
8. In Chapter 11, why was Stevenson optimistic about what evidence in the McMillian case might accomplish in the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals?
9. Why was it so difficult to get money for wrongful imprisonment?
10. Where did McMillian decided to live in Chapter 13?
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