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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1973 Term.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What room does Berger want to take as his office?
(a) The conference room.
(b) The decision room.
(c) The break room.
(d) The old chief justice's office.

2. Which justice writes the first order refusing to halt the bombings?
(a) Marshall.
(b) White.
(c) Blackmun.
(d) Burger.

3. Which rule requires that a rehearing can only be considered if it was brought up by one of the justices who had sat on the case?
(a) Rule 58.
(b) Rule 68.
(c) Rule 8.
(d) Rule 48.

4. Douglas assigns the Lloyd opinion to which Justice?
(a) Brennan.
(b) Blackmun.
(c) Marshall.
(d) Powell.

5. Blackmun had been general counsel at what location when he was in private practice?
(a) Smithsonian.
(b) John Hopkins.
(c) Mayo Clinic.
(d) FBI.

Short Answer Questions

1. Burger circulates his latest version of the executive privilege section of the Watergate draft on what day?

2. The tentative vote on the death penalty cases in the 1971 term is held on what day?

3. As chief justice, Burger was in charge of what building?

4. The Utah Public Service Commission v. El Paso Natural Gas Co. is a case that has been bouncing around the courts for how many years?

5. In what month does the ACLU appeal the Court of Appeals decision to lift the injunction to the Supreme Court

(see the answer key)

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