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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Mapp v. Ohio case concerns which amendment?
(a) First.
(b) Fifth.
(c) Second.
(d) Fourth.

2. What room does Berger want to take as his office?
(a) The break room.
(b) The decision room.
(c) The conference room.
(d) The old chief justice's office.

3. 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.

4. What is the famous case about abortion that the Supreme Court hears?
(a) Roe v. Wade.
(b) Anderson v. Cooper.
(c) Michaels v. Fulton.
(d) Doe v. Bolton.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Lloyd v. Tanner deals with the distribution of anti-war literature in what state?

2. On what day does Harlan resign from the Court?

3. Who is appointed to Black's seat on the Court?

4. Who did Chief Justice Earl Warren believe would be his replacement?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the solicitor general's argument in the Charlotte busing case?

2. What is Justice Black's opinion on school desegregation and busing?

3. What does the book mean when it says that the Supreme Court performs its work in secret?

4. What is the issue in Griggs v. Duke Power Co.?

5. Why does Burger favor a rehearing in the case of Utah Public Service Commission v. El Paso Natural Gas Co.?

6. How does Gerald R. Ford try to impeach Douglas?

7. What are the three level of federal courts?

8. How does the court view the abortion cases?

9. Before the court sets the written and oral briefing schedule for a case, what happens?

10. Burger feels that he can distinguish his court from Warren's court by doing what?

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