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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which rule requires that a rehearing can only be considered if it was brought up by one of the justices who had sat on the case?
(a) Rule 58.
(b) Rule 68.
(c) Rule 8.
(d) Rule 48.

2. When Warren and his clerks got together on Saturdays, what do they watch?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Classic movies.
(c) The news.
(d) Football.

3. Burger does not want to be compared to which former Justice?
(a) Warren.
(b) Marbury.
(c) Madison.
(d) Roman.

4. Berger hires how many more clerks?
(a) Three.
(b) Nine.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Six.

5. Following the oral arguments in a case, the justices hold a conference called what?
(a) Meet and confer.
(b) The decision conference.
(c) The case conference.
(d) The conferring conference.

6. What is the other state (not Texas) who has an abortion case come before the Court in 1971?
(a) Arizona.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Nevada.
(d) Alabama.

7. Burger writes a memo that looks at the obscenity cases of the 1971 term within a doctrine called what?
(a) Stanley obscenity doctrine.
(b) Stanley privacy doctrine.
(c) Stanley perversion doctrine.
(d) Stanley prevention doctrine.

8. Who writes the decision in Cohen v. California?
(a) Harlan.
(b) Douglas.
(c) Burger.
(d) Black.

9. How many justices must agree to hear a case before the case can be heard?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

10. In what year does Chief Justice Earl Warren retire from the Court?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1968.

11. Burger believes that Warren was more interested in results than what?
(a) Constitutional law.
(b) Legal reasoning.
(c) Constitutional enforcement.
(d) Legal enforcement.

12. What court decides the Mapp v. Ohio case?
(a) The Harlan Court.
(b) The Maddison Court.
(c) The Warren Court.
(d) The Burger Court.

13. Who did Chief Justice Earl Warren believe would be his replacement?
(a) Potter Stewart.
(b) Thurgood Marshall.
(c) Warren R. Burger.
(d) John Mitchell.

14. The Mapp v. Ohio case concerns which amendment?
(a) Fourth.
(b) Second.
(c) Fifth.
(d) First.

15. Who appoints justices to the Supreme Court?
(a) The attorney general.
(b) Congress.
(c) The senate.
(d) The president.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has to negotiate every paragraph of the Charlotte opinion with Burger?

2. The arguments in the three busing cases are heard in what month?

3. As chief justice, Burger was in charge of what building?

4. One of Warren's last acts is to overturn a decision in what case?

5. Where do Warren and his clerks spend Saturdays?

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