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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. The arguments in the three busing cases are heard in what month?
(a) October.
(b) November.
(c) December.
(d) January.

4. Who first publishs the Pentagon Papers?
(a) Chicago Sun Times.
(b) New York Times.
(c) Associated Press.
(d) Washington Post.

5. Berger hires how many more clerks?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) Nine.

6. 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.

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

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

9. Gerald R. Ford leads an impeachment attempt against whom?
(a) Nixon.
(b) Bivens.
(c) Douglas.
(d) Rosenberg.

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

11. On what day is Warren's successor offered the position?
(a) May 17.
(b) May 19.
(c) May 23.
(d) May 21.

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

13. Following the oral arguments in a case, the justices hold a conference called what?
(a) The case conference.
(b) The decision conference.
(c) The conferring conference.
(d) Meet and confer.

14. Marshall views the dealth penalty as what?
(a) A form of state-sanctioned killing.
(b) A form of racial discrimination.
(c) A form of class discrimination.
(d) A form of cruel and unusual punishment.

15. The chief justice gets to assign opinion-writing duties under what conditions?
(a) When the chief justice is the senior justice.
(b) When the chief justice is in the majority.
(c) When the oldest justice is in the minority.
(d) When the chief justice wants to assign them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Inc. Fund attorney in the Charlotte case?

2. Flood v. Kuhn involves which baseball team?

3. The United States Supreme Court belongs to which branch of government?

4. How long does each side normally get during oral arguments?

5. Who appoints justices to the Supreme Court?

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