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57 questions
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Government 2302
Spring 2003
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57 questions
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers
the question.
1. Which of the following is assured by the 4th Amendment?
a. Citizens have a right to a speedy and public trial before an impartial jury.
b. Citizens are free from unreasonable searches and seizures.
c. Citizens are protected from double jeopardy and self-incrimination.
d. Excessive bails and fines are prohibited.
2. Which of the following is NOT assured by the 5th Amendment?
a. Citizens are protected from double jeopardy and self-incrimination.
b. Government may not deprive citizens of life, liberty, or property without due process of
law.
c. Congress may not suspend the writ of habeas corpus.
d. Citizens are guaranteed just compensation for public use of private property.
3. Which of the following is assured by the 6th Amendment?
a. Excessive bails and fines are prohibited.
b. Citizens are free from unreasonable searches and seizures.
c. Citizens have the right to face their accusers and to cross-examine witnesses.
d. Cruel and unusual punishments are prohibited.
4. Which of the following is assured by the 8th Amendment?
a. Cruel and unusual punishments are prohibited.
b. Citizens have the right to face their accusers and to cross-examine witnesses.
c. Congress may not infringe the right to keep and bear arms.
d. Citizens have the right to be secure in their houses, papers, and effects from
unreasonable searches and seizures.
5. During the 1950s and 1960s, the __________ Court was accused of coddling the guilty and
handcuffing the police.
a. Burger b. Warren c. Holmes d. Rehnquist
6. According to the authors of the STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY, with respect to the rights of the
criminally accused, the result of Republican domination of the White House between 1968
and 1993 is
a. greater concern for due process requirements than for crime control.
b. an orientation toward extending the rights of the accused.
c. greater concern for crime control than for due process requirements.
d. greater concern for legal technicalities than for crime control.
7. According to the authors of the STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY, the Rehnquist Court has
a. broadened the exclusionary rule. b. abolished the exclusionary rule.
c. narrowed the exclusionary rule. d. declared the exclusionary rule unconstitutional.
8. GIDEON V WAINWRIGHT, ESCOBEDO V ILLINOIS, and MIRANDA V ARIZONA are landmark cases of
the 1960s which
a. reduced the rights of the accused.
b. strengthened the rights of the accused.
c. increased the power of law enforcement officials.
d. addressed inequities in law enforcement practices based on race.
9. Which legal restriction on the manner in which law enforcement officials obtain evidence was
originally applied only to federal criminal cases, but was extended to state cases in MAPP V
OHIO?
a. the cautionary rule. b. the prevention rule. c. the exclusionary rule.
d. the inclusionary rule.
10. The 8th Amendment says that “________ bail shall not be required.”
a. temporary b. exceptional c. excessive d. prohibitive
11. Opponents of the death penalty argue that it
a. requires the judge to act as God.
b. demands unquestionable evidence against the accused.
c. violates the constitutional prohibition against “cruel and unusual punishment.”
d. metes out an irreversible sentence.
12. Many people who support the death penalty believe that justice
a. is best served when it is administered quickly and emphatically.
b. demands strong retribution for heinous crimes.
c. has become soft on today’s criminals.
d. needs to be refined.
13. In FURMAN V GEORGIA, the USSC ruled that capital punishment, as imposed by the state law,
violated the 8th and 14th Amendment prohibitions against
a. fair trial and equal protection of the laws.
b. cruel and unusual punishments and equal protection of the laws.
c. due process clause and right to counsel.
d. cruel and unusual punishments and due process of law.
14. The death penalty has been challenged on which of the following grounds?
a. the inequity in the ability of accused persons to pay for legal counsel
b. racial bias in the application of the punishment
c. gender bias in the application of the punishment
d. age bias in the application of the punishment
15. Limits on the conduct of police and prosecutors include no
a. questions of individuals until they are taken into custody (arrested).
b. search without an arrest warrant.
c. unreasonable or unwarranted searches or seizures.
d. all of the above.
16. The exclusionary rule is a policy
a. forbidding the admission of illegally seized evidence.
b. which prohibits the arresting officer from serving as a character witness at a hearing or a
trial.
c. which prohibits the detention of a suspect for more than 48 hours without formal charges
being filed.
d. none of the above.
17. Suppose the police take a suspect into custody for questioning. Which of the following
would hold?
1. The suspect is entitled to have an attorney present during questioning.
2. The suspect has the right to refuse to answer questions.
3. If the police release the suspect without filing criminal charges, they are prevented from
taking the person into custody later.
4. If the suspect confesses to the crime, even after he has been read his Miranda rights, the
state cannot use the confession to prosecute the suspect.
5. The suspect is entitled to a court-appointed attorney at the state’s expense if he cannot
afford to pay for his own legal counsel.
a. all of the above b. 1 and 2 c. 1, 2, and 4 d. 1, 2, and 5
18. In which of the following scenarios would evidence seized by the police during a search be
excluded (suppressed) from criminal trial? In other words, in which scenario would the
exclusionary rule apply?
a. The police go to the home of a school guidance counselor after receiving several
complaints from parents about the behavior of the man with respect to their children.
The police charge him with indecency with a child upon finding, in his home,
photographs of naked children. The man gave the police permission to search his
residence, but the police failed to obtain a search warrant.
b. The police search the trunk of a woman’s car after presenting a warrant in good faith, but
the warrant is “technically” flawed. The police find heroin in the trunk and charge the
woman with possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell.
c. Without obtaining a search warrant, the police search a closet in a man’s apartment after
the man’s neighbor informs them that the man has illegal guns stored there. The police
find the remains of a missing woman and charge the man with murder.
d. The exclusionary rule would apply in all of these scenarios [the evidence would be
suppressed in each case].
19. In which of the following scenarios would the respective statement (confession) be
inadmissible in a criminal trial?
a. A man walks into a police station and confesses that he is a serial killer.
b. The police arrive at the scene of a fatal car crash and find a man lying on the ground next
to the passenger side of one of the vehicles. They ask the man where the driver is and
responds, “I was driving and I am drunk.” They charge the man with DWI and vehicular
manslaughter since the driver of the other car was dead on the scene.
c. The police receive an anonymous phone tip about a man keeping large amounts of cash
in his apartment. The police stake out the man’s apartment and decide that he is likely
the same man videotaped by a bank’s security cameras during a recent robbery. Outside
his apartment, the police ask the man where he got all the money he’s been spending
lately. He tells them he got it from the bank he robbed. The police arrest him and charge
him with armed robbery.
d. The statements in each of these scenarios would be inadmissible because the police
failed to administer the suspects’ Miranda warnings.
20. According to our in-class discussions, civil rights declare
a. what the government must do or provide. b. what the government has done.
c. what the government cannot do.
d. none of these.
21. According to the authors of the STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY, __________ refer(s) to equal
treatment by government of all citizens, and guarantees equal citizenship for all Americans.
a. civil liberties b. democracy c. statutes d. civil rights
22. Which of the following was not one of the provisions found in the original Constitution in
1787 regarding slavery?
a. Slaves were to be counted as 3/5 of a person.
b. Authorities must train and educate new slaves.
c. It prohibited any federal restriction on the importation of slaves until 1808.
d. It guaranteed the return of escaped slaves to their owners.
23. In 1848, _________ helped to organize the Seneca Falls Convention on women’s rights.
a. Susan B. Anthony b. Marjorie Rankin c. Hannah Atkins d. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
24. According to the authors of the STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY, in __________, the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans had no rights that whites or government were
bound to respect.
a. BROWN V BOARD OF EDUCATION b. PLESSY V FERGUSON c. DREDD SCOTT V SANDFORD
d. the SLAUGHTERHOUSE cases
25. The ______ Amendment outlawed slavery in the United States.
a. 13th b. 14th c. 15th d. 10th
26. The popular term for the system of legal segregation that existed in the American South until
the middle of the 20th century is
a. Jim Crow. b. de facto segregation. c. de jure segregation.
d. second generation discrimination.
27. A tax to be paid as a condition of voting is called a
a. toll tax.
b. poll tax.
c. dole tax.
d. pole tax.
28. What is a “white primary?”
a. a primary election open only to whites
b. a primary held in winter, usually November
c. a Jim Crow strategy
d. both a and c
29. According to the authors of the STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY, which of the following
eventually pushed the Supreme Court, the president, and the Congress, to take the equal
protection clause of the 14th Amendment more seriously?
a. the Civil War b. the Civil Rights movement c. the election of Richard Nixon
d. World War I
30. In 1944, the Supreme Court held that race was a “suspect classification” and that laws that
discriminated on the basis of race demanded __________ scrutiny.
a. strict b. intermediate c. ordinary d. due process
31. Under what type of scrutiny does the Supreme Court examine sexual discrimination suits?
a. ordinary b. suspect c. strict d. intermediate
32. The __________ was a proposed constitutional amendment that would have prohibited the
U.S. government or the states from denying or abridging equal rights on the grounds of
gender.
a. Equal Rights Amendment b. Equal Pay Amendment
c. Seneca Falls Amendment
d. Comparable Worth Amendment
33. The Supreme Court rulings in 1883 that declared federal civil rights laws prohibiting
discrimination by private individuals to be unconstitutional are known as the
a. Discriminatory Laws. b. Laws of 1883. c. Rights of All Decisions.
d. Civil Rights Cases.
34. On the basis of which of the following constitutional provisions did the Supreme Court
rulings (mentioned in the previous question) hold the civil rights statutes to be
unconstitutional?
a. Article VI, par. 2 – the Supremacy Clause.
b. 14th Amendment – the Equal Protection Clause
c. Article I, sec. 8:18 – the Necessary and Proper Clause
d. 10th Amendment – Reserved Powers of the States Clause
35. De jure segregation means racial segregation
a. that has been eliminated by a state grand jury.
b. that is based on cultural differences.
c. of French immigrants prior to the 20th century.
d. that occurs because of laws or government decisions.
36. In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in PLESSY V FERGUSON that
a. African-Americans are NOT defined as persons under the Constitution.
b. the government has the power to force all people to treat each other as equals.
c. schools may not practice any type of racial segregation.
d. separation of races is not a violation of the 14th Amendment's "equal protection of the
laws" clause.
37. In PLESSY V FERGUSON, the USSC upheld
a. voting rights for freed slaves. b. Funding for public housing.
c. State laws requiring segregation. d. Federal laws requiring segregation.
38. In PLESSY V FERGUSON, which of the following legal doctrines did the USSC find to be
consistent with the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause?
a. Jim Crowism b. separate-but-equal c. color blindness d. separate accommodations
rule
39. According to the authors of the STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY, the great breakthrough for racial
equality in America came with the Supreme Court’s decision in ____________, in which a
unanimous Court held that “separate but equal” in inherently unequal.
a. BROWN V BOARD OF EDUCATION b. PLESSY V FERGUSON
c. DRED SCOTT V SANDFORD d. GITLOW V NEW YORK
40. In BROWN V BOARD OF EDUCATION, the USSC did not order immediate national
desegregation; rather it required state and local authorities to proceed
a. before being ordered to do so by federal officials.
b. without any further interference from national officials.
c. with “all deliberate speed.”
d. in a manner that would conform to local, county, and state “vantage points.”
41. According to the authors of the STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY, which of the following
statements best captures the immediate reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision in BROWN V
BOARD OF EDUCATION (1954)?
a. Despite widespread resistance, programs to desegregate the public schools were enacted
almost immediately.
b. Little was accomplished until the president and Congress backed up the Court’s decision
with civil rights legislation.
c. Violence and unrest erupted nationwide within two weeks of the Court’s decision.
d. The opinion was later reversed by Plessy v Ferguson because the Court had overstepped
its authority in interpreting the equal protection clause.
42. The South Carolina case, SWANN V CHARLOTTE-MECHLENBURG (1971), upheld
a. the elimination of Jim Crow laws in public schools.
b. supervision by federal officials in local elections.
c. equal opportunity employment in all educational levels.
d. court-ordered busing of pupils to achieve racial balance.
43. The NAACP’s most important attorney in the Civil Rights movement who later became the
first African-American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court was
a. Martin Luther King, Jr. b. Thurgood Marshall. c. Louis Farrakhan.
d. Clarence Thomas.
44. The 1960s legislation that ranks with the Emancipation Proclamation, the 14th Amendment,
and the BROWN case as one of the most important steps toward full equality for AfricanAmericans is the
a. Civil Rights Act of 1964. b. Voting Rights Act of 1965. c. Civil Rights Act of 1968.
d. Equal Rights Amendment of 1972.
45. Which of the following is NOT a provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
a. unlawful to discriminate in any public accommodation
b. end discrimination in all programs receiving federal aid
c. established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
d. guarantee voting rights for all adult citizens
46. The last major civil rights problem addressed by the Congress in the 1968 Civil Rights Act
was discrimination in
a. education.
b. employment.
c. sale and rental of housing.
d. registering and voting in state and national elections.
47. A program, whether enacted by a government or by a private organization, whose goal is to
overcome the results of past unequal treatment of minorities and/or women by giving
members of these groups preferential treatment in admissions, hiring, promotions, or other
aspects of life is called
a. positive action. b. affirmative action. c. preferential treatment.
d. special accommodations.
48. A provision of some affirmative action programs in which specific numbers or percentages of
positions are open only to minorities and/or women is a
a. proportional representation. b. quorum. c. quota. d. plurality.
49. Established by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the agency responsible for monitoring
affirmative action programs in private employment is the
a. Quality Quota Council.
b. Equal Quota of Employees Commission.
c. Equal Quorum of Employing Agencies.
d. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
50. The current position of the federal courts on the issue of affirmative action (as it applies to
The University of Texas Law School’s admission program) is that
a. quota systems are an acceptable means to achieve racial equality.
b. The university may set aside a certain number of admission slots for minority applicants.
c. The university may not take race into consideration in its admission practices.
d. None of these.
51. According to the authors of the STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY, given the most recent court
decisions and the current conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court,
a. affirmative action programs are likely to get a boost.
b. Few affirmative action laws may be accepted as constitutional.
c. Affirmative action programs will be evaluated using “intermediate scrutiny.”
d. Reverse discrimination suits will probably be held to be baseless.
52. Since the Supreme Court’s decision in University of California, Davis v Bakke (1978),
government and higher education racial preferences have
a. focused exclusively on rigid quotas in hiring or admissions decisions.
b. used race as a factor in hiring or admissions decisions.
c. never used race as a factor in hiring or admissions decisions.
d. been prohibited by Congress.
53. According to the results of recent public opinion polls, most Americans believe that
affirmative action programs
a. should be maintained as they are. b. should be abolished.
c. do not help minorities. d. should be used only to help women.
54. Why did the U.S. Supreme Court declare unconstitutional the provisions of the Civil Rights
Acts of 1865-1877 which made discrimination against blacks by private actors (hotel/motel
keepers, restaurant owners, and other providers of public accommodations, etc.) illegal?
a. The 14th Amendment was not to be ratified by the States for another 100 years.
b. The members of the Supreme Court were segregationists and believed that such
discrimination preserved the supremacy of the white race.
c. The members of the Supreme Court believed that the 14th Amendment only gave
Congress the authority to prevent discrimination by the States in their official
(governmental) acts.
d. None of these.
55. Which provision of the Constitution did the Supreme Court use in cases in the 1960s to
uphold congressional efforts to prohibit discrimination by private actors?
a. the Supremacy Clause b. the necessary and proper clause
c. the interstate commerce clause d. the General Welfare clause
56. Which of the following is generally true of social regulatory policy issues (i.e., moral
controversies or civil liberties/civil rights) we have examined in the second half of the
course?
1. Single-issue interest groups tend to promote uncompromising, absolutist positions on
social regulatory issues.
2. Courts have a tendency to decide cases in favor of individual liberties at the expense of
broader community values.
3. Presidents generally play an important role in the formation of substantive social
regulatory policies.
4. Congress has a tendency to pass legislation supporting broader community values at the
expense of individual liberties.
5. The fact of federalism in the American political system makes the enforcement of social
regulatory policies more predictable and consistent.
a. 1, 2, and 3
b. 1, 2, and 4
c. 1, 2, 4, and 5
d. 1, 3, and 5
57. Which of the following is usually true regarding public opinion with respect to social
regulatory policy issues (i.e., moral controversies or civil liberties/civil rights)?
a. Public opinion can generally be described as “liberal” on these issues.
b. Public opinion cannot be measured on these issues.
c. General public opinion is usually not as intense as that of the advocacy groups that are
active on these issues.
d. None of these are true.