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Question #1
What is Gates recalling? What is the main story line?
A.   A civil rights protest
B.   A story he read in The Village Voice
C.   A memory from childhood
Question #2
Gates included a quote from Trey Ellis before his story. Why?
A.   To compare different types of racial slurs
B.   Because that is what triggered his memory
C.   To inform people about racial slurs for African Americans
Question #3
Gates believes that using names is important to show respect.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #4
The Gates family was very well respected by whites in Piedmont.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #5
How did the visit with Henry affect Bryan Stevenson?
A.   Mr. Stevenson was extremely concerned about Henry's safety.
B.   Mr. Stevenson became more committed to becoming a lawyer and working with death row inmates.
C.   Mr. Stevenson realized that he wasn't prepared to handle visiting death row.
Question #6
What did Bryan Stevenson do while an intern that first time at the SPDC? (Choose ALL that are correct.),,
A.   Research legal issues for other staff members
B.   Answer phones
C.   Visit a prisoner
D.   Clerical work
Question #7
The Bryan Stevenson says that he was feeling adrift and didn't really relate well to the courses and many of the students. What changed and brought his path into clearer focus for him?
A.   He signed up for a one-month intensive course that required him to do social justice work with an organization.
B.   He spend the summer working with a juvenile justice project in Philadelphia.
C.   He got an interview with a law firm that flew him to NY.
Question #8
In the introduction to Just Mercy, what was the growing crisis that brought former criminal defense lawyers from Washington D.C. to Georgia?
A.   Lawyers didn't work well together.
B.   There were too many people on death row.
C.   Death row prisoners couldn't get lawyers.
Question #9
In the introduction to Just Mercy, we learned that there have always been places of education open to black Americans.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #10
What time frame did Mr. Stevenson state was the beginning of a transformation in American's criminal justice system?
A.   Mid 1970s
B.   Early 1990s
C.   1965
D.   Early 1980s

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