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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 much money did a jury award John Thompson for being incarcerated wrongly?

2. Where did McMillian spend his first week out of prison?

3. What did Myers want to drink when Stevenson and O'Connor spoke to him in Chapter 7?

4. In Chapter 11, how many bomb threats had their been in the last two months?

5. Where was John Thompson scheduled to be executed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Sullivan like in 1989, and what was his home life like?

2. Why was Marsha Colbey charged with capital murder?

3. How did Marsha Colbey give her kids her heart?

4. Why was Trina Garnett arrested for?

5. Why did Stevenson's office in Atlanta sue Angola Prison?

6. Who was hired as a paralegal in Chapter 9?

7. In Chapter 11, why was Stevenson optimistic about what evidence in the McMillian case might accomplish in the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals?

8. What was Michael O'Connor's background?

9. What issues were there when Stevenson got to the courtroom on the second day of the Rule 32 Hearing?

10. Why was it so difficult to get money for wrongful imprisonment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

In the introduction, Stevenson discusses individual character. How does Stevenson define character and what it means for individuals? What does he believe affects one’s character? How does he feel that character can be measured?

Essay Topic 3

Stevenson noticed how history played a role in justice. How did Stevenson see the way that history influenced the American justice system? How did history continue to influence the justice system? How did that affect the cases that Stevenson worked on?

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