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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 does Abe Fortas want before going to trial before representing Gideon?
2. What is the only thing Gideon's landlady testifies to when Gideon questions her?
3. Gideon believes that he was denied ______________ during a legal trial.
4. What role does Gideon take on in helping other inmates?
5. The Supreme Court is bound not so much by laws as by the trends and ____________ of the Justices who serve.
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the process of a Supreme Court petition?
2. What distinction did Justice Jackson once make regarding the infallibility of Supreme Court decision?
3. How does Fortas learn more about Gideon during the months after he is appointed to represent him?
4. What is the seeming difference between how the Supreme Court views indigence and how Gideon was treated in the lower court?
5. What is Gideon's life like after he marries in 1955?
6. What is the nature of Gideon's petition to the Supreme Court?
7. What compensation does an attorney representing a client in a Supreme Court case get?
8. What is Gideon's mood as he heads into his Supreme Court trial?
9. How many Supreme Court Justices are there and how large is their support staff?
10. What does Fortas discover in Gideon's file regarding how he questioned witnesses and how an attorney would have been better able to manage?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the significance of the book's title. What did the author mean by calling the book GIDEON'S TRUMPET when Gideon is clearly not a musician? Expand your thinking and provide the best answer you can think of.
Essay Topic 2
Gideon changed the course of American law by petitioning for justice in the area of rights to an attorney. Who might be the next Gideon? Name two causes that are important in the United States today and how their passage would significantly alter the laws in America. What do you think the chances are of the causes passing and affecting change? Explain.
Essay Topic 3
The author uses more than one iteration on the theme of hope. Identify at least two themes about hope in the book. Then cite an example to support each theme you name.
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