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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. In what city in Florida did Gideon reside?
(a) Melbourne.
(b) Pensacola.
(c) Panama City.
(d) Tampa.
2. What is Gideon's job in prison?
(a) Electrician.
(b) Trusty.
(c) Cook.
(d) Janitor.
3. Why does Gideon say he needs to get out of prison?
(a) To continue his education.
(b) To get a good job.
(c) To care for his children.
(d) To care for his mother.
4. Why does the Florida Attorney General say Gideon did not have the right to counsel?
(a) He had too many prior convictions.
(b) He was insane.
(c) He was clearly guilty.
(d) The rules of Betts vs. Brady.
5. How old is Gideon?
(a) 45.
(b) 51.
(c) 39.
(d) 27.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why is Gideon filing an appeal to his case?
2. What does Gideon tell his attorney is the primary reason he needs to get out of jail?
3. What does Henry Cook state that Gideon had in his hand when he saw him on the morning of June 3?
4. For what crime is Gideon serving time in prison?
5. What establishment was Gideon convicted of robbing?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe some of Gideon's bad childhood experiences.
2. How does Fortas learn more about Gideon during the months after he is appointed to represent him?
3. What is so unusual about Gideon's tenacity in preparing his petition to the Supreme Court?
4. What role has Gideon assumed while in prison regarding helping some of the other inmates?
5. What is the seeming difference between how the Supreme Court views indigence and how Gideon was treated in the lower court?
6. What is Gideon's life like after he marries in 1955?
7. What is the famous 1940s case whose precedent denied Gideon an attorney at his criminal trial?
8. What distinction did Justice Jackson once make regarding the infallibility of Supreme Court decision?
9. For what crime is Gideon serving time in a Florida prison?
10. What kind of power do the Supreme Court Justices have and how do some of them feel about it?
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