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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment?
(a) Eleventh.
(b) Tenth.
(c) Ninth.
(d) Eighth.

3. On what day is the Keyes decision announced to the public?
(a) June 29.
(b) June 1.
(c) June 14.
(d) June 21.

4. Where are Marshall and his clerks when the firing of Archibald Cox is announced?
(a) Marshall's Fall Church house.
(b) The University Club.
(c) The White House.
(d) The Press Club.

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

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

7. Who does the president appoint to replace Douglas?
(a) Steven O'Dell.
(b) Ruth Ginsberg.
(c) John Paul Stevens.
(d) Sandra Day O'Conner.

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

9. Which justice writes the first order refusing to halt the bombings?
(a) White.
(b) Marshall.
(c) Blackmun.
(d) Burger.

10. Where is Burger when he receives the call that tells him Nixon is going to resign?
(a) Germany.
(b) Netherlands.
(c) France.
(d) England.

11. What is the last day of the 1975 term?
(a) July 9.
(b) July 6.
(c) July 8.
(d) July 7.

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

13. A retired justice always has how many clerks available?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) None.
(d) One.

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

15. In September of 1975, Douglas appears in what city, to hear an emergency request?
(a) Oslow.
(b) Seattle.
(c) Yakima.
(d) Salem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which justice writes the opinion in the Keyes case?

2. What is the name of Douglas' wife?

3. Which justice wants to write his own opinion in the Keyes case?

4. In Almeida-Sanchez v. US, what amendment is involved?

5. Who swears in Nixon's sucessor?

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