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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who writes the dissent in San Antonio v. Rodriguez?
(a) Blackmun.
(b) Rehnquist.
(c) Marshall.
(d) Burger.
2. Which amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment?
(a) Tenth.
(b) Eleventh.
(c) Eighth.
(d) Ninth.
3. On what date are the oral arguments heard on the Watergate tapes?
(a) July 29.
(b) July 10.
(c) July 8.
(d) July 15.
4. Buckley v. Valeo deals with what issue?
(a) Campaign finance.
(b) Antitrust.
(c) Government oversight.
(d) National security.
5. What is the job of Powell's in-laws?
(a) Dentists.
(b) Podiatrists.
(c) Obstetricians.
(d) Pediatricians.
6. If there were to be an impeachment trial of President Nixon, who would preside?
(a) The senior justice.
(b) The chief justice.
(c) The president of the Senate.
(d) The leader of the House of Representatives.
7. Who writes the Saxbe opinion?
(a) Powell.
(b) Brennan.
(c) Blackmun.
(d) Douglas.
8. Where are Marshall and his clerks when the firing of Archibald Cox is announced?
(a) The Press Club.
(b) The University Club.
(c) The White House.
(d) Marshall's Fall Church house.
9. Which justice writes the opinion in the Keyes case?
(a) Douglas.
(b) Blackmun.
(c) Powell.
(d) Brennan.
10. Who writes the majority opinion in San Antonio v. Rodriguez?
(a) White.
(b) Powell.
(c) Burger.
(d) Brennan.
11. What is the name of the Denver judge who orders busing in the Keyes case?
(a) Johnathan Regallias.
(b) James Patterson.
(c) William Doyle.
(d) Harry Thurmond.
12. On April 2, in the 1975 term, the justices vote seven to two on what issue?
(a) The exculsionary rule.
(b) Illegal search and siezure.
(c) Abortion.
(d) The death penalty.
13. Where does Burger hold his annual reunion with his former clerks?
(a) The White House.
(b) The Congressional conference rooms.
(c) The East and West conference rooms.
(d) The Congressional ballroom.
14. How long after he leaves the hospital does Douglas return to the hospital?
(a) Seven days.
(b) Ten days.
(c) One month.
(d) Three weeks.
15. Who travels to Douglas before the start of the 1975 term to try and get him to resign?
(a) Charles Reich.
(b) Grant Howard.
(c) James Dickenson.
(d) Frank Tollard.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. In what year does Watergate take place?
3. In what month is Marshall hospitalized with pneumonia?
4. In September of 1975, Douglas appears in what city, to hear an emergency request?
5. After being told by the doctors that his condition was permanent, where does Douglas go for a consult?
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