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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which state files its own brief in support of the principles of Gideon's case?
(a) Oregon.
(b) Michigan.
(c) Maine.
(d) Montana.

2. Under the Betts rule, who is required to have an attorney?
(a) An indigent person.
(b) A person of low intelligence.
(c) An innocent person.
(d) A guilty person.

3. What is the name of another case in Florida that is similar to Gideon's regarding right to an attorney?
(a) Cromwell vs. Cooley.
(b) Carnley vs. Cochran.
(c) Carney vs. Collins.
(d) Cronin vs. Cochran.

4. Who typed Jacob's legal brief in the Gideon case?
(a) Law clerk.
(b) Personal assistant.
(c) Legal secretary.
(d) Jacob's wife.

5. Walter Mondale of Minnesota wrote to Jacob that all __________________ should have a lawyer.
(a) Felony defendants.
(b) Accused people.
(c) Indigents.
(d) People.

6. What do some people at the state level want to see implemented?
(a) Another appellate court.
(b) Mandatory attorney representation.
(c) A public defender's office.
(d) A lottery to decide who takes a case.

7. What amazes Jacob about appearing in the Supreme Court?
(a) The huge number of people present.
(b) The informality of the proceedings.
(c) The courtroom cameras.
(d) The quality of the furniture.

8. What "stupid answer" does Jacob give in response to a Justice?
(a) He did not realize that he would be questioned on some of these issues.
(b) Gideon did the crime and he has to do the time.
(c) The Justices have not done their due diligence in the case.
(d) A judge would not object to a lay person representing someone else.

9. When the Supreme Court ruled that federal defendants must have lawyers, a ________________ took over in place of any official body creating and funding a system that would work.
(a) Caucus.
(b) Task force.
(c) Non-system.
(d) State committee.

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

11. The Justice makes the point that all the prisoners currently jailed without counsel were entitled to an attorney ________________________.
(a) Because this is America.
(b) Whether they wanted one or not.
(c) Until proven guilty.
(d) Under the special circumstances rule.

12. What would add to chaos if the Betts rule were to be overturned?
(a) Mass filing of appeals from current prisoners.
(b) Riots in prisons all across America.
(c) Media interviews would overwhelm them.
(d) Law schools would have to change curriculum.

13. What do some attorneys consider oral arguments to be?
(a) A formality.
(b) A nuisance.
(c) A waste of time.
(d) An imperative.

14. What did State Judge Walter V. Schaefer of the Illin.ois Court of Illinois assert as a citizen's greatest right?
(a) The right to practice religion.
(b) The right to an attorney.
(c) The right of free speech.
(d) The right to bear arms.

15. How many people other than Jacob are on Jacob's law team in the Gideon case?
(a) 2.
(b) None.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. How might Gideon have known about the Carnley vs. Cochran case?

2. Which of the following is NOT a Justice seated during Gideon's Supreme Court case?

3. One of the Justices asks Jacob if he believes all the prisoners currently jailed without benefit of an attorney are __________________.

4. Jacob contends that the basis for his case is about _________________, not an attorney.

5. What is the case in which six black boys were accused of rape of two white girls in 1932?

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