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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. Keyes v. School District No. 1 is from what state?
(a) Colorado.
(b) Wyoming.
(c) Montana.
(d) Washington.

2. Who writes the Saxbe opinion?
(a) Brennan.
(b) Powell.
(c) Douglas.
(d) Blackmun.

3. In what year does Watergate take place?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1973.

4. Jaworski asks for a special review by the court in the Watergate tapes case. What is the name of this type of review?
(a) Expedited review.
(b) Sitting review.
(c) A priori review.
(d) Latent review.

5. In what month do the doctors tell Douglas that his condition was permanent?
(a) January.
(b) November.
(c) October.
(d) December.

Short Answer Questions

1. In July 1973, which court issues an injunction to halt the bombing of Cambodia by the US?

2. Where does Blackmun spend the summer of 1972?

3. In the Keyes case, what is the name of the local area where the case comes from?

4. Which amendment requires a search warrant?

5. What ability does Douglas not have when he returns to Washington in 1975?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Stewart not agree with the concept of letting local jurisdictions decide what pornography was?

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

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

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

7. How does Powell do his research on abortion?

8. What does the Fourteenth Amendment say?

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

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

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