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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1974 Term.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days are there between the first publication of the Pentagon Papers and the hearing in the court?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Ten.
(d) Fourteen.

2. When does the court's term begin?
(a) July.
(b) October.
(c) June.
(d) August.

3. Burger believes that Warren was more interested in results than what?
(a) Legal enforcement.
(b) Legal reasoning.
(c) Constitutional law.
(d) Constitutional enforcement.

4. The chief justice gets to assign opinion-writing duties under what conditions?
(a) When the oldest justice is in the minority.
(b) When the chief justice is in the majority.
(c) When the chief justice wants to assign them.
(d) When the chief justice is the senior justice.

5. After Burger returns from the Netherlands, he is hit by a car while doing what?
(a) Jogging.
(b) Walking.
(c) Riding in a golf cart.
(d) Bicycling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the issue in Phillips v. Martin Marietta?

2. Who dies on the day the abortion decision is formally announced?

3. Lloyd v. Tanner deals with the distribution of anti-war literature in what state?

4. Written arguments from both sides of the case are also called what?

5. Where do Warren and his clerks spend Saturdays?

(see the answer key)

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