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

2. Where does Gideon work after getting out of a reformatory?
(a) Shoe factory.
(b) Slaughterhouse.
(c) Restaurant.
(d) Hardware store.

3. For what crime is Gideon serving time in prison?
(a) Statutory Rape.
(b) Petty larceny.
(c) Grand Theft Auto.
(d) Murder.

4. Federal law _____________ state law.
(a) supersedes.
(b) challenges.
(c) is more lenient than.
(d) is harsher than.

5. Who does Gideon marry ten months after his first marriage?
(a) Yvette Mimieux.
(b) Tonya Robichaux.
(c) Babs Devereaux.
(d) Ruth Babineaux.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the question the Justices say is before them when deciding to hear Gideon's case?

2. An attorney representing a client in a Supreme Court case gets money for ________________.

3. In what part of the country does Gideon live?

4. Justices of the Supreme Court have a higher power than ____________________.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Fortas discover in Gideon's file regarding how he questioned witnesses and how an attorney would have been better able to manage?

3. What is the famous 1940s case whose precedent denied Gideon an attorney at his criminal trial?

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

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

6. What kind of power do the Supreme Court Justices have and how do some of them feel about it?

7. What is Gideon's mood as he heads into his Supreme Court trial?

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

9. What is meant by federalism and how could Gideon's Supreme Court case impact it?

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

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