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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. What is the name of the Denver judge who orders busing in the Keyes case?

2. In what month during the 1975 term is there a special Saturday session to consider the death penalty cert petitions?

3. Where does Blackmun spend the summer of 1972?

4. Who writes the opinion in Southeastern Promotions, Ltd. v. Conrad?

5. With Douglas gone, who is the senior associate justice?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Burger do when he finds out the abortion opinion has been leaked to the press before its release date?

2. What does Brennan see the decision in Warth v. Seldin as doing?

3. What do the Justices have to do after the Douglas resignation?

4. When Burger circulates his decision on the Milliken case in April, what does Powell find?

5. What state would not allow aliens to join the bar?

6. In the Frontiero case, what does the lower court decide?

7. What do the other Justices decide to do when news of Douglas' stroke comes to them?

8. What does Chief Justice Burger do at his annual reunions with his law clerks?

9. What does Brennan talk about at the opening cocktail party for the clerks before the 1974 term?

10. In the 1973 term, how does the court deal with obscenity?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the court's ability to choose its cases influence the decisions it makes? Cite examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

How did desegregation dominate the 1969-1975 terms of the court? Use examples from the book to support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What drove the behavior of Chief Justice Burger while he was on the court? Cite examples from the book to support your reasoning.

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