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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many justices write the majority opinion?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

3. Who writes the decision in Cohen v. California?
(a) Douglas.
(b) Black.
(c) Harlan.
(d) Burger.

4. Who is the attorney for Inc. Fund when they bring the school case before the Court?
(a) Jack Greenbery.
(b) Jordan Mitchell.
(c) Regan Lewis.
(d) Clark Emch.

5. One of Warren's last acts is to overturn a decision in what case?
(a) Adam Clayton Smith.
(b) Adam Clayton Wells.
(c) Adam Clayton Drummond.
(d) Adam Clayton Powell.

6. On what day does Burger hold a news conference in his chambers to explain why the court did not hold a special summer session to address the busing issue?
(a) August 31.
(b) June 30.
(c) July 31.
(d) September 30.

7. Haynsworth is nominated to fill the seat vacated by whom?
(a) Marshall.
(b) Williams.
(c) Goodman.
(d) Fortas.

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

9. What change does Berger make to the actual bench the justices sat at?
(a) He makes it straighter.
(b) He changes the wood.
(c) He curves it.
(d) He raises it higher.

10. When Warren and his clerks got together on Saturdays, what do they watch?
(a) Football.
(b) The news.
(c) Classic movies.
(d) Basketball.

11. When the court agrees to hear a case it is known as granting what?
(a) Argument.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Briefing.
(d) Cert.

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

13. What is the other state (not Texas) who has an abortion case come before the Court in 1971?
(a) Arizona.
(b) Nevada.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Georgia.

14. Who is appointed to Black's seat on the Court?
(a) Williams.
(b) Dertain.
(c) Powell.
(d) Marshall.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the attorney who represents the petitioner before the court in the Texas abortion case?

2. How many pages is Hugo Black's opinion that does not overturn the lower court's decision on racial segregation?

3. How many clerks does Chief Justice Earl Warren have?

4. Written arguments from both sides of the case are also called what?

5. Black joins the Court as an associate justice in what year?

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