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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 is Gideon's job in prison?
(a) Electrician.
(b) Cook.
(c) Janitor.
(d) Trusty.
2. Sometimes the justices have their ________________ write brief memorandums about the petitioner's file contents.
(a) Personal assistant.
(b) Law clerks.
(c) Legal secretary.
(d) Interns.
3. How many does does the opposing side on a case have to respond once a petition submitted to the Supreme Court?
(a) 60.
(b) 30.
(c) 90.
(d) 15.
4. Fortas notes that there is a recent history of the Justices declining to approve petitions that would _____________________.
(a) Apply to indigent people.
(b) Probably result in guilty verdicts.
(c) Be applied across the board to all states.
(d) Impact people already in prison.
5. Why was Gideon in the hospital during this time?
(a) He had gallbladder surgery.
(b) He was in a car accident.
(c) He had A-typical tuberculosis.
(d) He had pneumonia.
Short Answer Questions
1. Gideon believes that he was denied ______________ during a legal trial.
2. As a general rule, the Justices' decisions follow ______________ of what's most important in the judicial system.
3. Why does Gideon say he needs to get out of prison?
4. How many children does Gideon have?
5. Because wages are so low when Gideon moves his family to Florida, what does he do to supplement the income?
Short Essay Questions
1. For what crime is Gideon serving time in a Florida prison?
2. Why is it relevant that Fortas wants to know if Gideon is a Negro?
3. What is so unusual about Gideon's tenacity in preparing his petition to the Supreme Court?
4. How many Supreme Court Justices are there and how large is their support staff?
5. What is the nature of Gideon's petition to the Supreme Court?
6. What distinction did Justice Jackson once make regarding the infallibility of Supreme Court decision?
7. How does Fortas learn more about Gideon during the months after he is appointed to represent him?
8. What incriminating testimony had been provided by the prosecution's witness, Henry Cook, during Gideon's criminal trial?
9. For what is Abe Fortas already known regarding influencing the Supreme Court to expand a certain ruling?
10. What kind of power do the Supreme Court Justices have and how do some of them feel about it?
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