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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. Who's funeral happens while the Justices are in the middle of writing the Watergate opinion?
(a) Marbury.
(b) Black.
(c) Warren.
(d) Marshall.

4. When Douglas goes out of town, Burger reassigns the Lloyd opinion to which Justice?
(a) Rehnquist.
(b) Marshall.
(c) Stevenson.
(d) Powell.

5. In the 1972 term, who writes the majority opinion on abortion?
(a) Stewart.
(b) Blackmun.
(c) Douglas.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was Earl Warren chief justice?

2. The Brennan order on desegregation, issued to guide the lower courts, was issued __________, meaning it had no designated author.

3. Black and Harlan are in what hospital in July 1971?

4. On what day does Black resign from the Court?

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

(see the answer key)

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