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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. On what date are the oral arguments heard on the Watergate tapes?

2. Who dies on the day the abortion decision is formally announced?

3. In September of 1975, Douglas appears in what city, to hear an emergency request?

4. Who swears in Nixon's sucessor?

5. What is the vote, for and against, in the Keyes case?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the Frontiero case, what does the lower court decide?

2. What does Chief Justice Burger do at his annual reunions with his law clerks?

3. What is Blackmun's formula on abortion that wins the support of the chief justice?

4. Why is White critical of Stevens?

5. What does the first reverse-discrimination case the court hears concern?

6. What does the Saxbe decision allow?

7. Why is Douglas' situation uneasy for all of the other justices?

8. After the other justices comment on his draft decision in the Milliken case, what does Burger do?

9. What does Brennan talk about at the opening cocktail party for the clerks before the 1974 term?

10. Burton Marks argues a pornography in front of the court in November 1972. What is his argument?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is precedent? What is the role of precedent for the Supreme Court? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

How did desegregation dominate the 1969-1975 terms of the court? Use examples from the book to support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

How do politics affect the decisions of the Supreme Court? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

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