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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1975 Term.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Black and Burger feel that desegregation can be achieved without ________.
(a) Quotas.
(b) Rules.
(c) Ratios.
(d) Busing.

2. The decision on the death penalty cases in the 1971 term is announced on what day?
(a) June 28.
(b) June 29.
(c) June 30.
(d) June 27.

3. On April 2, in the 1975 term, the justices vote seven to two on what issue?
(a) The death penalty.
(b) Abortion.
(c) The exculsionary rule.
(d) Illegal search and siezure.

4. On May 19, President Nixon has what agency begin a background check on a future justice?
(a) Attorney General.
(b) CIA.
(c) FBI.
(d) NSA.

5. As chief justice, Burger was in charge of what building?
(a) The Courts building.
(b) The judicial buildings in DC.
(c) The Appellate Court building.
(d) The Supreme Court building.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Marshall and his clerks when the firing of Archibald Cox is announced?

2. What is the famous case about abortion that the Supreme Court hears?

3. Under which law does Flood sue in Flood v. Kuhn?

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

5. In what month is Marshall hospitalized with pneumonia?

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