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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 and 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what crime is Gideon serving time in prison?
(a) Statutory Rape.
(b) Grand Theft Auto.
(c) Murder.
(d) Petty larceny.

2. What is the question the Justices say is before them when deciding to hear Gideon's case?
(a) Why should the U.S. Supreme Court have to get involved with a petty larceny case?
(b) Should this Court's holding in Betts vs. Brady, 316 U.S. 455, be reconsiderd?
(c) Are we not bound to provide legal justice for all men in this country?
(d) How many more men like Clarence Earl Gideon are sitting in America's prisons?

3. What reason did the judge in Gideon's first trial not appoint an attorney?
(a) No attorney would take the case.
(b) He had no reason.
(c) The county didn't have legal funds.
(d) He knew Gideon was guilty.

4. Under the Betts rule, who is required to have an attorney?
(a) A guilty person.
(b) An innocent person.
(c) A person of low intelligence.
(d) An indigent person.

5. Abe Fortas learns that the ______________________ of Gideon's first trial was/were not recorded.
(a) Verdict.
(b) Judge's ruling.
(c) Opening and closing arguments.
(d) Witness statements.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the Betts case able to prevail in 1942?

2. What comment does George Mantz say that draws laughter from the Justices?

3. In most cases the majority of the work falls on _________________.

4. How many Supreme Court decisions has Gideon read?

5. How old is Gideon?

(see the answer key)

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