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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. Petitions from people who can't afford an attorney or the filing fees are called what?
(a) Informa pauperis petitions.
(b) Informational pauper petitions.
(c) Informational petitions.
(d) Informal petitions.

2. When Blackmun is appointed to the Court, he receives how many bags of cert petitions?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

3. The Utah Public Service Commission v. El Paso Natural Gas Co. is a case that has been bouncing around the courts for how many years?
(a) Thirteen years.
(b) Eleven years.
(c) Twelve years.
(d) Ten years.

4. As chief justice, Burger was in charge of what building?
(a) The judicial buildings in DC.
(b) The Appellate Court building.
(c) The Courts building.
(d) The Supreme Court building.

5. How long was Earl Warren chief justice?
(a) 11 years.
(b) 13 years.
(c) 9 years.
(d) 15 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Douglas assigns the Lloyd opinion to which Justice?

2. Which rule requires that a rehearing can only be considered if it was brought up by one of the justices who had sat on the case?

3. Burger writes a memo that looks at the obscenity cases of the 1971 term within a doctrine called what?

4. What is the famous case about abortion that the Supreme Court hears?

5. What is the name of the attorney who represents the petitioner before the court in the Texas abortion case?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Justice Stewart think of Chief Justice Burger's draft of the Charlotte busing opinion that is circulated on December 8th?

2. Which justices were in favor of ruling against the abortion laws?

3. What are the three level of federal courts?

4. What does Justice Harlan believe about precedent?

5. How many justices sit on the Supreme Court, and how do they arrange duties?

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

7. What is Burger's worry about his office when he becomes chief justice?

8. Where do Justices Black and Harlan spend their time during the break before the 1971 term?

9. Why does Justice Stewart work with the chief justice on drafting the Charlotte busing opinion?

10. What do law clerks generally talk about over lunch and why?

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