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

2. If there were to be an impeachment trial of President Nixon, who would preside?
(a) The leader of the House of Representatives.
(b) The president of the Senate.
(c) The chief justice.
(d) The senior justice.

3. Which amendment says that no one should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process?
(a) Sixteenth.
(b) Fifteenth.
(c) Thirteenth.
(d) Fourteenth.

4. What state does San Antonio v. Rodriguez come from?
(a) Arizona.
(b) California.
(c) Texas.
(d) New Mexico.

5. What is the last day of the 1975 term?
(a) July 8.
(b) July 6.
(c) July 9.
(d) July 7.

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. Singleton v. Wulff concerns what issue?

3. In what month is Marshall hospitalized with pneumonia?

4. When is Nixon's successor sworn in?

5. What movie is the movie-house operater convicted for showing in Jenkins v. Georgia?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the 1973 term, how does the court deal with obscenity?

2. What do the other Justices decide to do when news of Douglas' stroke comes to them?

3. What does the Fourth Amendment require?

4. Why is White critical of Stevens?

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

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

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

8. What does Brennan see the decision in Warth v. Seldin as doing?

9. Who is John Doar and what is his job?

10. What does the first reverse-discrimination case the court hears concern?

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