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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. What state is involved in the 1972 case in which the court has to decide if resident aliens can become members of the bar?
(a) New York.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Maryland.

2. Southeastern Promotions, Ltd. v. Conrad deals with which musical?
(a) Grease.
(b) The Sound of Music.
(c) Hair.
(d) Westside Story.

3. Which justice writes the opinion in the Keyes case?
(a) Douglas.
(b) Powell.
(c) Blackmun.
(d) Brennan.

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

5. Who's funeral happens while the Justices are in the middle of writing the Watergate opinion?
(a) Warren.
(b) Marbury.
(c) Black.
(d) Marshall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Buckley v. Valeo deals with what issue?

2. What is the last day of the 1975 term?

3. Who disqualifies himself from the Watergate tapes case?

4. 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?

5. Who writes the dissent in San Antonio v. Rodriguez?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Powell do his research on abortion?

2. What happens to Douglas when he arrives in Nassau with his wife, Cathy?

3. In the Frontiero case, what does the lower court decide?

4. What does Chief Justice Burger do at his annual reunions with his law clerks?

5. What does the Saxbe decision allow?

6. What do the Justices have to do after the Douglas resignation?

7. Burton Marks argues a pornography in front of the court in November 1972. What is his argument?

8. What does the Fourteenth Amendment say?

9. When Burger circulates his decision on the Milliken case in April, what does Powell find?

10. What does Brennan not like about Burger's tactics during the 1975 term?

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