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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. Which amendment requires a search warrant?
(a) Ninth.
(b) Second.
(c) Fourth.
(d) Fifth.

2. How many days does Burger spend in the hospital after he was hit by a car?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Six.

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

4. Which justice withdraws from the Keyes case because of a possible conflict of interest?
(a) Burger.
(b) Rehnquist.
(c) White.
(d) Marshall.

5. Who travels to Douglas before the start of the 1975 term to try and get him to resign?
(a) Frank Tollard.
(b) Charles Reich.
(c) James Dickenson.
(d) Grant Howard.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Douglas suffers a stroke, which hospital is he taken to?

3. Who do Powell's clerks recommend he select as a new clerk in 1974?

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 presents the case for the president in the Watergate argument before the Court?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Burger do when he finds out the abortion opinion has been leaked to the press before its release date?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What state would not allow aliens to join the bar?

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

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

10. What does the Fourth Amendment require?

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