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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. Douglas and his wife spend the summer before the 1975 term where?
(a) Mallard Pond.
(b) Gander Farm.
(c) Goose Prairie.
(d) Duck Hill.

2. 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?
(a) The conspiracy lunch.
(b) The flashpoint lunch.
(c) The changing point.
(d) The tipping point.

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

4. On April 2, in the 1975 term, the justices vote seven to two on what issue?
(a) Illegal search and siezure.
(b) The death penalty.
(c) The exculsionary rule.
(d) Abortion.

5. What 1973 case involves busing in Detroit?
(a) MacAdams v. Brenat.
(b) Madison v. Bowling.
(c) Milliken v. Bradley.
(d) Marshall v. Bowing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Blackmun spend the summer of 1972?

2. Which justice writes the first order refusing to halt the bombings?

3. Who writes the majority opinion in San Antonio v. Rodriguez?

4. If there were to be an impeachment trial of President Nixon, who would preside?

5. Frontiero v. Richardson involves what issue?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is White critical of Stevens?

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

3. What is one of the Justices considerations in the reverse discrimination case?

4. How does Burger get from the Netherlands to the White House for Ford's swearing-in?

5. What does the Fourth Amendment require?

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

7. What is Blackmun's formula on abortion that wins the support of the chief justice?

8. After the other justices comment on his draft decision in the Milliken case, what does Burger do?

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

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

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