Gideon's Trumpet Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Anthony Lewis
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 139 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Gideon's Trumpet Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Anthony Lewis
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 139 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 and 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the right to an attorney issue become even greater on the state level?
(a) There are more indigent defendants.
(b) The states resist the change.
(c) There are judges who want to rule on a case-by-case basis.
(d) There are more intellectually challenged defendants.

2. Who is the clerk who receives Gideon's Supreme Court petition?
(a) Stu Mathias.
(b) Michael Kodak, Jr.
(c) Michael Rodak, Jr.
(d) Jeffrey Walton.

3. Who, other than the Justices, are included in behind closed door sessions when they consider which cases to hear?
(a) Ten Law Clerks.
(b) No one.
(c) The U.S. Attorney General.
(d) One legal secretary.

4. Why does Gideon say he needs to get out of prison?
(a) To continue his education.
(b) To get a good job.
(c) To care for his children.
(d) To care for his mother.

5. Gideon says that his court trial violated the _____________ Amendment.
(a) Fifth.
(b) Tenth.
(c) Fourteenth.
(d) First.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Gideon's reply to the Florida Attorney General's document, Gideon states that he can't cite laws such as the Florida Attorney General has, but that he "_____________________________."

2. What reason did the judge in Gideon's first trial not appoint an attorney?

3. Which of the following does Henry Cook state that Henry did on the morning of June 3?

4. Justices of the Supreme Court have a higher power than ____________________.

5. A famous line in Gideon's petition to the Supreme Court reads: "It makes no difference how old I am or what color I am or __________________________."

(see the answer key)

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