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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Potter Stewart is worried that what problem would become public if he took the Chief Justice spot?
(a) His wife's drinking problem.
(b) His wife's drug habit.
(c) His drinking problem.
(d) His mistress problem.

3. How many more clerks does Berger originally want to hire?
(a) Ten.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Nine.
(d) Twelve.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The famous case on school segregation is called __________ vs. Board of Education.

2. Burger keeps track of the justices workload on what?

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

4. What change does Berger make to the actual bench the justices sat at?

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

(see the answer key)

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