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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. What does Gideon tell his attorney is the primary reason he needs to get out of jail?
(a) To show his innocence.
(b) To have surgery.
(c) To make arrangements for his children.
(d) To get a job.

2. For what reason has Gideon been summoned to court?
(a) Child custody case.
(b) Traffic violations.
(c) Noise violations.
(d) Divorce proceedings.

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

4. Which of the following is an indigent person unable to afford that a rich defendant can?
(a) Psychiatric evaluations.
(b) Bail.
(c) All of these.
(d) Other defense methods.

5. 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 "_____________________________."
(a) Is trying to learn the best he can.
(b) Has good intentions.
(c) Knows there are many of them.
(d) But he will look them up if it takes forever.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Supreme Court decisions has Gideon read?

2. Which of the following is true of Jacobs prior to the Supreme Court case?

3. What do some attorneys consider oral arguments to be?

4. When is Gideon's case forwarded to the Supreme Court Justices?

5. For what crime is Gideon serving time in prison?

(see the answer key)

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