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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. What is the vote, for and against, in the Keyes case?
(a) Six-two.
(b) Five-four.
(c) Five-three.
(d) Six-three.
2. Who disqualifies himself from the Watergate tapes case?
(a) Brennan.
(b) Marshall.
(c) Powell.
(d) Rehnquist.
3. The lunch that White, Stewart, and some clerks attend in the 1973 term, where they discuss the problems they are having with Burger, becomes known as what?
(a) The flashpoint lunch.
(b) The changing point.
(c) The conspiracy lunch.
(d) The tipping point.
4. Which justice wants to write his own opinion in the Keyes case?
(a) Marshall.
(b) Powell.
(c) Burger.
(d) Douglas.
5. Who travels to Douglas before the start of the 1975 term to try and get him to resign?
(a) James Dickenson.
(b) Charles Reich.
(c) Grant Howard.
(d) Frank Tollard.
Short Answer Questions
1. The opinion on the obscenity cases comes from the court on what day in 1972?
2. In July 1973, which court issues an injunction to halt the bombing of Cambodia by the US?
3. When is Nixon's successor sworn in?
4. What movie is the movie-house operater convicted for showing in Jenkins v. Georgia?
5. How long after he leaves the hospital does Douglas return to the hospital?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Powell do his research on abortion?
2. What is expedited review?
3. Why does Stewart not agree with the concept of letting local jurisdictions decide what pornography was?
4. What does Brennan not like about Burger's tactics during the 1975 term?
5. Who is John Doar and what is his job?
6. What does the Saxbe decision allow?
7. What does Brennan see the decision in Warth v. Seldin as doing?
8. Why is Douglas' situation uneasy for all of the other justices?
9. How does Burger get from the Netherlands to the White House for Ford's swearing-in?
10. What does Chief Justice Burger do at his annual reunions with his law clerks?
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