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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. In what year does Watergate take place?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1971.
2. What is the name of the 1972 case in which the court has to decide if resident aliens can become members of the bar?
(a) In re Martin.
(b) In re Griffiths.
(c) In re Fartly.
(d) In re Talumns.
3. Who writes the dissent in San Antonio v. Rodriguez?
(a) Burger.
(b) Blackmun.
(c) Rehnquist.
(d) Marshall.
4. Who wrote the 1973 majority opinion on the Detroit busing case?
(a) Powell.
(b) Burger.
(c) Brennan.
(d) Marshall.
5. Who dies on the day the abortion decision is formally announced?
(a) Lyndon Johnson.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Jimmy Carter.
(d) Ronald Regan.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the Keyes case, what is the name of the local area where the case comes from?
2. Where does Burger hold his annual reunion with his former clerks?
3. Which justice writes the opinion in Jenkins v. Georgia?
4. Burger circulates his latest version of the executive privilege section of the Watergate draft on what day?
5. What state is involved in the 1972 case in which the court has to decide if resident aliens can become members of the bar?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the Saxbe decision allow?
2. How does Burger get from the Netherlands to the White House for Ford's swearing-in?
3. Why is Douglas' situation uneasy for all of the other justices?
4. Who is John Doar and what is his job?
5. What does the Fourth Amendment require?
6. In the 1973 term, how does the court deal with obscenity?
7. What does the first reverse-discrimination case the court hears concern?
8. After the other justices comment on his draft decision in the Milliken case, what does Burger do?
9. What does Brennan not like about Burger's tactics during the 1975 term?
10. What happens to Douglas when he arrives in Nassau with his wife, Cathy?
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