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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what month do the doctors tell Douglas that his condition was permanent?
(a) January.
(b) October.
(c) December.
(d) November.

2. Doe v. Commonwealth's Attorney concerns what issue?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) Abortion.
(c) Adoption.
(d) Parental rights.

3. Saxbe v. Bustos is what type of case?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Freedom of speech.
(c) Discrimination.
(d) Immigration.

4. Where does Blackmun spend the summer of 1972?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Michigan.
(c) Minnesota.
(d) Maryland.

5. Keyes v. School District No. 1 is from what state?
(a) Wyoming.
(b) Washington.
(c) Montana.
(d) Colorado.

6. How long after he leaves the hospital does Douglas return to the hospital?
(a) Ten days.
(b) One month.
(c) Seven days.
(d) Three weeks.

7. When Douglas suffers a stroke, which hospital is he taken to?
(a) John Hopkins.
(b) Baltimore Trauma Center.
(c) Bethesda Naval Hospital.
(d) Walter Reed.

8. In what year does Watergate take place?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1972.

9. Which justice writes the opinion in the Keyes case?
(a) Powell.
(b) Blackmun.
(c) Brennan.
(d) Douglas.

10. Who writes the Saxbe opinion?
(a) Brennan.
(b) Douglas.
(c) Powell.
(d) Blackmun.

11. In what month is Marshall hospitalized with pneumonia?
(a) January.
(b) February.
(c) November.
(d) December.

12. Who wrote the 1973 majority opinion on the Detroit busing case?
(a) Brennan.
(b) Marshall.
(c) Burger.
(d) Powell.

13. If there were to be an impeachment trial of President Nixon, who would preside?
(a) The leader of the House of Representatives.
(b) The senior justice.
(c) The president of the Senate.
(d) The chief justice.

14. In the Keyes case, what is the name of the local area where the case comes from?
(a) Park Hill.
(b) Dawning Creek.
(c) Shadow Mountain.
(d) Aspen Pines.

15. Burger circulates his latest version of the executive privilege section of the Watergate draft on what day?
(a) July 17.
(b) July 20.
(c) July 9.
(d) July 11.

Short Answer Questions

1. Singleton v. Wulff concerns what issue?

2. Who travels to Douglas before the start of the 1975 term to try and get him to resign?

3. The lunch that White, Stewart, and some clerks attend in the 1973 term, where they discuss the problems they are having with Burger, becomes known as what?

4. After the firing of Archibald Cox, who does President Nixon turn the tapes over to?

5. After Burger returns from the Netherlands, he is hit by a car while doing what?

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