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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can a lay person not be expected to know?
(a) Legal fees.
(b) Attorney phone numbers.
(c) Supreme Court Justices.
(d) Points of law.

2. What does Abe Fortas want before going to trial before representing Gideon?
(a) A series of phone interviews with Gideon.
(b) A meeting with Gideon.
(c) A transcript of Gideon's previous trial.
(d) A big raise.

3. Where is the U.S. Supreme Court located?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) New York.
(c) Washington D.C.
(d) Boston.

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

5. With whom does Gideon file a petition?
(a) The Florida Appellate Court.
(b) The American Civil Liberties Union.
(c) The U.S. Supreme Court.
(d) The NAACP.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gideon send money to his parents when he is in jail in the mid-1930s?

2. Why did Gideon never move his family out of Panama City?

3. What can be said about Gideon in that he stuck to the process of filing an appeal?

4. How old was Gideon when his father died?

5. Gideon believes that he was denied ______________ during a legal trial.

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