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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. Buckley v. Valeo deals with what issue?

2. Frontiero v. Richardson involves what issue?

3. After Burger returns from the Netherlands, he is hit by a car while doing what?

4. Who writes the Saxbe opinion?

5. Who will succeed Nixon as President?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is expedited review?

2. What does the Fourth Amendment require?

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

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

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

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

7. What does the Saxbe decision allow?

8. Why is White critical of Stevens?

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

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

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

Which justice, not including the chief justice, was a good justice? What is your definition of a good justice? Answer the question using examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how and why the court used the Constitution to support its rulings in the issues below:

1) Desegregation.

2) Privacy.

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