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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1973 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) Ten.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Eleven.

2. Frontiero v. Richardson involves what issue?
(a) Economic discrimination.
(b) Sexual discrimination.
(c) Racial discrimination.
(d) Marital discrimination.

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

4. The tentative vote on the death penalty cases in the 1971 term is held on what day?
(a) January 29.
(b) January 21.
(c) January 18.
(d) January 13.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what day is the firing of Archibald Cox announced?

3. Where does Burger hold his annual reunion with his former clerks?

4. What court decides the Mapp v. Ohio case?

5. Burger does not want to be compared to which former Justice?

(see the answer key)

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