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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1970 Term.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What court decides the Mapp v. Ohio case?
(a) The Burger Court.
(b) The Warren Court.
(c) The Harlan Court.
(d) The Maddison Court.

2. In what year does Chief Justice Earl Warren retire from the Court?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1968.

3. Who appoints justices to the Supreme Court?
(a) The senate.
(b) The attorney general.
(c) Congress.
(d) The president.

4. What change does Berger make to the actual bench the justices sat at?
(a) He makes it straighter.
(b) He changes the wood.
(c) He raises it higher.
(d) He curves it.

5. When the court agrees to hear a case it is known as granting what?
(a) Hearing.
(b) Argument.
(c) Briefing.
(d) Cert.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of Warren's last acts is to overturn a decision in what case?

2. How many days are there between the first publication of the Pentagon Papers and the hearing in the court?

3. The chief justice gets to assign opinion-writing duties under what conditions?

4. Black joins the Court as an associate justice in what year?

5. Douglas notices there is a majority of five that support what position in the Charlotte case?

(see the answer key)

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