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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the question the Justices say is before them when deciding to hear Gideon's case?
(a) How many more men like Clarence Earl Gideon are sitting in America's prisons?
(b) Are we not bound to provide legal justice for all men in this country?
(c) Should this Court's holding in Betts vs. Brady, 316 U.S. 455, be reconsiderd?
(d) Why should the U.S. Supreme Court have to get involved with a petty larceny case?

2. What is Gideon on the verge of losing while in jail this time?
(a) His mind.
(b) His job.
(c) His house.
(d) Custody of his children.

3. What is one caveat for a person who brings a petition before the Supreme Court?
(a) He must have been hurt by a legal action.
(b) He must have money for an attorney.
(c) He must be indigent.
(d) He must be illiterate.

4. Who is appointed to represent Gideon in his Supreme Court trial?
(a) Abe Vigoda.
(b) Abe Fortas.
(c) Abe Rothstein.
(d) Abe Fourman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many justices sit on the Supreme Court?

2. What does Gideon tell his attorney is the primary reason he needs to get out of jail?

3. What is unique about Gideon's petition to the U.S. Supreme Court?

4. Other than Gideon, who is the only person who could have filed Gideon's petition to the Supreme Court?

5. What prior case had established the rules for assigning an attorney to a defendant.

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