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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1969 Term.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Black joins the Court as an associate justice in what year?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1950.

2. Following the oral arguments in a case, the justices hold a conference called what?
(a) The conferring conference.
(b) The case conference.
(c) Meet and confer.
(d) The decision conference.

3. How many pages is Hugo Black's opinion that does not overturn the lower court's decision on racial segregation?
(a) Ten pages.
(b) Nine pages.
(c) Seven pages.
(d) Five pages.

4. When Blackmun is appointed to the Court, he receives how many bags of cert petitions?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

5. The famous case on school segregation is called __________ vs. Board of Education.
(a) Marks.
(b) Brown.
(c) Bowing.
(d) Turner.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day is Warren's successor sworn in?

2. What room does Berger want to take as his office?

3. When does the court's term begin?

4. Who appoints justices to the Supreme Court?

5. How many justices write the majority opinion?

(see the answer key)

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