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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. Which amendment requires a search warrant?

2. Which justice writes the opinion in the Keyes case?

3. In September of 1975, Douglas appears in what city, to hear an emergency request?

4. Douglas and his wife spend the summer before the 1975 term where?

5. What is the name of the 1972 case in which the court has to decide if resident aliens can become members of the bar?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Burger go to New York to visit Douglas on July 24th, before the start of the 1975 term?

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

4. What does the Saxbe decision allow?

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

6. What does the Fourth Amendment require?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What makes a book a history book? Is this book a history book? if not, what genre is this book and why? Use the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Why, during the 1975 term, did the author conclude that, "the center was in control"? Support your answer with examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Brennan believe that the court should be the protector of right and the guarantor of fairness. In what way did the court live up to, or not meet, this standard? Discuss the answer using examples from the book as support.

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