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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. During the 1974 term, who is the court's press officer?

3. Which justice wants to write his own opinion in the Keyes case?

4. After the firing of Archibald Cox, who does President Nixon turn the tapes over to?

5. In what month is Marshall hospitalized with pneumonia?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Douglas' situation uneasy for all of the other justices?

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

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

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

6. Why is White critical of Stevens?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did desegregation dominate the 1969-1975 terms of the court? Use examples from the book to support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What was one of the big issues the Burger court dealt with, and how did the court handle the issue? Discuss legal reasoning, internal debates, and anything else that you think is relevant. Use the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss, using examples from the book, how the Burger court used, or didn't use, the power of the court to influence politics in the states.

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