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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. On what day is Warren's successor sworn in?
(a) July 23.
(b) June 20.
(c) July 20.
(d) June 23.

4. Black and Harlan are in what hospital in July 1971?
(a) Walter Reed.
(b) John Hopkins.
(c) Bethesda Naval Hospital.
(d) University of Maryland Hospital.

5. How long does each side normally get during oral arguments?
(a) 60 minutes.
(b) As long as they want.
(c) 45 minutes.
(d) 30 minutes.

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

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

8. When Blackmun is appointed to the Court, he receives how many bags of cert petitions?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

9. On what day does Burger circulate his draft opinion in the Charlotte case?
(a) December 9.
(b) December 10.
(c) December 8.
(d) December 11.

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

11. In 1971, what is Black convinced he was dying of?
(a) Measles.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Chicken pox.
(d) AIDS.

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

13. Who did Chief Justice Earl Warren believe would be his replacement?
(a) Potter Stewart.
(b) John Mitchell.
(c) Warren R. Burger.
(d) Thurgood Marshall.

14. The publication of the Pentagon Papers is enjoined by the federal courts on what grounds?
(a) National security.
(b) Harmful content.
(c) Prior restraint.
(d) Illicit content.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who has to negotiate every paragraph of the Charlotte opinion with Burger?

3. Black incorporates a list of permissible actions a judge can take to deal with unruly behavior in what decision?

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

5. How many justices write the majority opinion?

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