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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the
question.
1) In 1969, the Supreme Court fashioned a new test for deciding what types of speech could be regulated by the
government. The new test made it more difficult to limit speech due to the requirement of imminent harm. The new
test was called
A) direct incitement.
B) clear and present danger.
C) substantive danger.
D) the Lemon test.
2) The case that legalized abortion in the first and second trimesters of pregnancy, as well as to save the life and
health of the mother, was called
A) Griswold v. Connecticut.
B) Roe v. Wade.
C) Bowers v. Hardwick.
D) Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
3) Under the __________ Amendment, the police may search things in plain view, the person arrested, and things
under the arrestee's immediate control.
A) Eighth
B) Fifth
C) Fourth
D) Third
4) A warrantless search can occur constitutionally if
A) consent is given.
B) a search warrant is difficult to obtain.
C) the officer knocks first.
D) all of the above.
5) The judicial doctrine that government cannot prohibit speech or publication before the fact is called
A) a priori limitation.
B) prior restraint.
C) amicus curiae.
D) the prohibition clause.
6) In 1914, the Supreme Court ruled that illegally seized evidence could not be used at trial. This became known as
the
A) due process clause.
B) procedural rights rule.
C) exclusionary rule.
D) Mapp rule.
7) Where secular law conflicts with religious belief, freedom of religion is
A) absolute.
B) guaranteed by the First Amendment.
C) often denied.
D) upheld.
8) The Bill of Rights was intended to
A) limit the powers of the national government to infringe on the liberties of citizens.
B) limit the powers of the state governments to infringe on the liberties of citizens.
C) increase the power of the national government to protect citizen rights.
D) increase state government powers to protect citizen rights.
9) Personal rights and freedoms that the federal government cannot abridge by law, constitution, or judicial
interpretation are called
A) civil rights.
B) civil liberties.
C) natural rights.
D) common liberties.
10) The First Amendment states that "Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech." The Supreme
Court has ruled that it is constitutional to restrict some types of speech, such as
A) obscenity.
B) symbolic speech.
C) political speech.
D) all of the above.
11) During the 1990s, Congress was particularly concerned with two obscenity issues. They were
A) arts funding and the Internet.
B) homoerotica and child pornography.
C) film and television ratings.
D) symbolic speech such as flag burning and subversive speech.
12) A warrantless search without probable cause can be made of
A) an individual under suspicion.
B) drivers stopped for infractions.
C) automobile passengers.
D) all of the above
13) The Supreme Court has defined obscenity
A) differently over time.
B) as a substantial government issue.
C) as consistently unconstitutional.
D) all of the above
14) The Bill of Rights is found in
A) the Preamble to the Constitution.
B) Article IV.
C) the first ten amendments.
D) Federalist Papers.
15) The establishment clause has been said to
A) prohibit the adoption of an official religion.
B) erect a wall of separation between church and state.
C) protect citizens' basic religious rights.
D) all of the above.
16) In 2000, the Supreme Court, in an opinion written by Chief Justice Rehnquist, reaffirmed the central holding of
__________ that no admission of guilt is truly voluntary unless a suspect has been apprised of his rights.
A) Gideon
B) Furman
C) Lemon
D) Miranda
17) The Eighth Amendment prohibits
A) unreasonable searches and seizures.
B) cruel and unusual punishment.
C) trial without an attorney.
D) all of the above.
18) Religious rights, both the right to freely exercise religion and the protection against the establishment of an
official religion, are protected by the __________ Amendment.
A) First
B) Second
C) Third
D) Fifth
TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
19) The first ten amendments to the Constitution are referred to as the Bill of Rights.
20) The Fifth Amendment guarantees the right to counsel.
21) Drug testing is a controversial Fourth Amendment issue.
22) The Fifth Amendment includes your constitutional right against self incrimination.
23) The right to bear arms is guaranteed by the Third Amendment.
24) School shootings in Colorado and Georgia heightened interest in gun control legislation.
25) The Supreme Court has ruled that police do not need a search warrant if a search is pursuant to an arrest or if
items are in 'plain view.'
26) In the case Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that the state had a right to regulate second trimester
abortions and that in the third trimester, abortions would only be legal if the life and health of the mother were at
stake.
27) The establishment clause prohibits the national government from establishing a national religion and is found
in the First Amendment.
28) Hate speech, in at least one university's speech code, was ruled unconstitutional restraint of free speech.
29) In general, the recent trend of the Court has been to lower the wall of separation between church and state.
30) The Supreme Court upheld provisions of the 1996 Communications Decency Act designed to protect children
from pornography on the Internet.