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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gideon say about the prison facilities for filing court documents?
(a) They are inadequate.
(b) They are better than he imagined.
(c) They are excellent.
(d) They do not exist.

2. Why does Gideon say he needs to get out of prison?
(a) To get a good job.
(b) To continue his education.
(c) To care for his children.
(d) To care for his mother.

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

4. Henry Cook states that at the poolroom, the front was off the cigarette machine and ___________________.
(a) The moneybox was empty.
(b) There were gunshots in the walls.
(c) All the chairs and tables were tipped over.
(d) The door lock was cut with bolt cutters.

5. Fortas notes that there is a recent history of the Justices declining to approve petitions that would _____________________.
(a) Impact people already in prison.
(b) Apply to indigent people.
(c) Probably result in guilty verdicts.
(d) Be applied across the board to all states.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many justices sit on the Supreme Court?

2. What payment does an attorney representing a client in a Supreme Court case receive?

3. Sometimes the justices have their ________________ write brief memorandums about the petitioner's file contents.

4. Gideon says that prisoners have ___________ contact with attorneys?

5. How many does does the opposing side on a case have to respond once a petition submitted to the Supreme Court?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the process of a Supreme Court petition?

2. Describe some of Gideon's bad childhood experiences.

3. What compensation does an attorney representing a client in a Supreme Court case get?

4. Do the Supreme Court Justices get to decide which cases they will hear?

5. What are Gideon's intentions for his life should he be released from prison?

6. What is the nature of Gideon's petition to the Supreme Court?

7. How does Fortas learn more about Gideon during the months after he is appointed to represent him?

8. What is the seeming difference between how the Supreme Court views indigence and how Gideon was treated in the lower court?

9. What role has Gideon assumed while in prison regarding helping some of the other inmates?

10. What is the typical course for a case to reach the Supreme Court?

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