Which of the following best describes the distinction between civil liberties and civil rights?

Do civil liberties protect citizens from the federal government and states as well?

Choose one answer.

	a. They apply to the federal government and evenly across states.
	b. They apply only to the federal government.
	c. They apply to the federal government and states, but unevenly across states.
	d. They apply primarily to states.

How do civil rights and civil liberties differ?

Choose one answer.

	a. Civil liberties protect citizens from the government, and civil rights describe government’s responsibility to protect citizens.
	b. Civil rights protect citizens from the government, and civil liberties describe government’s responsibility to protect citizens.
	c. The terms can be used interchangeably.
	d. Civil liberties protect citizens from the federal government, and civil rights protect citizens from state governments.

What are civil liberties?

Choose one answer.

	a. Individual rights and freedoms that the government may not infringe on.
	b. Group rights and freedoms that the government may not infringe on.
	c. The laws that states provide to ensure the protection of its citizens.
	d. Laws that provide for the welfare of citizens.

What are civil rights?

Choose one answer.

	a. Privileges afforded to African Americans by state governments.
	b. Protections against discrimination that focus on equal access to society and political life.
	c. Protections against abuses of power from the federal government.
	d. Protections against abuses of power from the federal and state governments.

What is judicial review?

Choose one answer.

	a. It is the principle that allows Congress to decide if court decisions are constitutional.
	b. It is the principle that allows the president to decide if court decisions are constitutional.
	c. It is the principle that allows the president to decide if congressional decisions are constitutional.
	d. It is the principle that allows the court to decide if congressional decisions are constitutional.

What is selective incorporation?

Choose one answer.

	a. It allowed the court to use the Fourteenth Amendment to incorporate the protections afforded to citizens by the Bill of Rights to actions by the Federal government.
	b. It allowed the court to use the Fourteenth Amendment to incorporate the protections afforded to citizens by the Bill of Rights to actions by state and local governments.
	c. It allowed the court to use the Sixteenth Amendment to incorporate the protections afforded to citizens by the Bill of Rights to actions by state and local governments.
	d. It allowed the court to use the Fifteenth Amendment to incorporate the protections afforded to citizens by the Bill of Rights to actions by state and local governments.

What Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review?

Choose one answer.

	a. Marbury v. Madison
	b. Dred Scott v. Sanford
	c. Plessy v. Ferguson
	d. It was actually established in the Constitution, not in any specific court case.

What was the first constitutional address of the civil rights of African Americans?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Bill of Rights.
	b. The Preamble to the Constitution.
	c. The Civil War amendments.
	d. Article II

What were the early colonists seeking in the new land in terms of religion?

Choose one answer.

	a. Religious freedom for all.
	b. Freedom for Catholics.
	c. A government that did not endorse any specific religion.
	d. The freedom to practice their own religion.

Where are civil liberties primarily defined?

Choose one answer.

	a. Article II of the Constitution
	b. Article I of the Constitution
	c. State laws
	d. The Bill of Rights

Which amendment contains the equal protection clause?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Fifteenth Amendment
	b. The Sixteenth Amendment
	c. The Fourteenth Amendment
	d. It is not in an amendment.

Why did the founders believe it was important to include protections of civil liberties in the new government?

Choose one answer.

	a. To address their fears about the citizens’ ability to wield power in the new government.
	b. To address their fears about the new federal government’s potential to abuse power.
	c. To address their fears about the new state governments’ potential to abuse power.
	d. To maintain an ability to collect taxes.

How did the court rule to protect marital privacy in Griswold v. Connecticut?

Choose one answer.

	a. They ruled that citizens did not have to testify against their spouses.
	b. They ruled that sexual relations between married citizens were not subject to legal restrictions.
	c. They ruled that the press could not investigate the spouse of a political leader.
	d. They ruled that a state's ban on the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy.

How have scholars defined the right to privacy?

Choose one answer.

	a. As an expression of one's personality or personhood, focusing upon the right of the individual to define his or her essence as a human being.
	b. As the moral freedom of the individual to engage in his or her own thoughts, actions, and decisions.
	c. As citizens' ability to regulate information about themselves.
	d. All of the above

How would you characterize the recommendations of the authors of the book Imbalance of Powers?

Choose one answer.

	a. They seem to be making recommendations that would further limit civil liberties.
	b. Their recommendations seem very supportive of the Patriot Act.
	c. They seem to make recommendations that would protect civil liberties.
	d. Their recommendations seem more concerned with security than civil liberties.

There was an extension of the Patriot Act that added new provisions that limited civil liberties. Which of the following was not one of those provisions?

Choose one answer.

	a. It authorized secret arrests.
	b. It authorized stripping Americans of their citizenship for engaging in constitutionally protected conduct.
	c. It eliminated restrictions on court orders issued to prevent police spying.
	d. All of the above are provisions of Patriot II.

What amendment in the Bill of Rights addresses the right to privacy?

Choose one answer.

	a. First
	b. Third
	c. Fifth
	d. All of the above

What constitutional provision was upheld in Doe v. Bolton?

Choose one answer.

	a. Due process
	b. Right to counsel
	c. Double jeopardy
	d. Eminent domain

What did Justice Douglas mean when he said that the right to privacy was inherent in the Bill of Rights because its specific guarantees have “penumbras,” created by “emanations from these guarantees that help give them life and opinion?”

Choose one answer.

	a. That the Ninth Amendment, which states that the Bill of Rights does not exhaust all the rights contained by the people, allows the Court to find the “fundamental right to marital privacy.”
	b. That several of the amendments interpreted together through the Fourteenth Amendment combined make up the right to privacy.
	c. That a "fundamental right to marital privacy" exists only because marital privacy has traditionally been protected by American society.
	d. None of the above

What do the authors argue in the famous article, “The Right to Privacy”?

Choose one answer.

	a. That the courts should not recognize individual privacy.
	b. That the courts should recognize individual privacy.
	c. That the Constitution does not make allowances for individual privacy.
	d. That the media should have the right to print whatever they see fit because of the freedom of speech.

What do the authors of the book Imbalance of Powers suggest regarding the implications of laws and regulations the government claims are intended to protect citizens from terrorists?

Choose one answer.

	a. They suggest the new immigrations laws associated with the Patriot Act will not threaten the liberties of US citizens.
	b. The authors suggest that laws and regulations intended to protect citizens from terrorists may actually threaten the liberties of non-terrorist citizens.
	c. They suggest that immigrants should not receive the same protections under the law.
	d. They suggest that the Constitution provides for same protections for immigrants under the law.

What does procedural due process accomplish?

Choose one answer.

	a. It prohibits the government from infringing on fundamental constitutional liberties.
	b. It gives the government the authority to prosecute criminals.
	c. It puts limitations on the manner in which a law is administered, applied, or enforced.
	d. It prevents the federal government from being constrained by state laws when prosecuting criminals.

What does substantive due process accomplish?

Choose one answer.

	a. It prohibits the government from infringing on fundamental constitutional liberties.
	b. It gives the government the authority to prosecute criminals.
	c. It puts limitations on the manner in which a law is administered, applied, or enforced.
	d. It prevents the federal government from being constrained by state laws when prosecuting criminals.

Which Supreme Court Justice wrote, perhaps, the most important law review article in American history addressing the right to privacy?

Choose one answer.

	a. Thurgood Marshall
	b. Warren Burger
	c. Louis Brandeis
	d. John Jay

Why did the court rule that laws prohibiting abortion in the first trimester were unconstitutional in Roe v. Wade?

Choose one answer.

	a. Because it was not a state right.
	b. Because it is unconstitutional discourage illicit sexual conduct.
	c. Because outlawing abortion could threaten the health of women.
	d. Because abortion fell under a “zone of privacy.”

How did the colonists handle free speech issues before the Constitution was ratified?

Choose one answer.

	a. They continued to conform to English law.
	b. They did not regulate speech except in cases of libel.
	c. They passed a number of statutes regulating speech, but neither the royal governors nor the local courts seemed to have enforced them with any degree of rigor.
	d. They passed a number of statutes regulating speech and the royal governors and local courts enforced these laws with rigor.

What are the origins of the freedom of speech in the US?

Choose one answer.

	a. It is an extension of English law.
	b. It is a response to English law that punished citizens for any critical utterances about the government.
	c. It comes from early American thinkers and leaders who thought it was necessary for democracy.
	d. Both B and C

What does Tabatha Abu El-Haj argue in her UCLA Law Review article entitled, “The Neglected Right of Assembly”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Through the late nineteenth century the state could only interfere with gatherings that actually disturbed the public peace, whereas today the right of peaceable assembly has narrowed.
	b. Through the late nineteenth century the state often interfered with public gatherings, whereas today the right of assembly is regulated much less.
	c. The regulation of the right of assembly has been one of the most consistent of liberties provided in the Bill of Rights.
	d. The right of peaceable assembly has broadened since the nineteenth century.

What is the “clear and present danger test” in regards to free speech?

Choose one answer.

	a. Speech can be legally limited if will bring about dangers that Congress has a right to prevent.
	b. Speech can be legally limited if it is damaging to the government.
	c. Speech can be legally limited if it is damaging to individual politicians.
	d. None of the above

What was the outcome of the ruling in Boos v. Barry?

Choose one answer.

	a. It does not violate First Amendment rights for the government to prohibit the use of protest signs within a designated range of a foreign embassy.
	b. It violates First Amendment rights for the government to prohibit the use of protest signs within a designated range of a foreign embassy.
	c. Whether it violates First Amendment rights for the government to prohibit the use of protest signs outside a foreign embassy is contingent on how far away from the embassy the signs are displayed.
	d. None of the above

What was the outcome of the ruling in Gitlow v. People of State of New York?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution does not extend the reach of freedom of speech and freedom of the press to state governments.
	b. The Court upheld Gitlow’s conviction on the basis that the government may suppress or punish speech when it directly advocates the unlawful overthrowing of the government.
	c. The Court overthrew Gitlow’s conviction on the basis that the government may not suppress or punish speech when it directly advocates the unlawful overthrowing of the government.
	d. None of the above

What was the outcome of the ruling in Hudgens v. National Labor Relations Board?

Choose one answer.

	a. A private organization cannot legally prohibit assembly at its physical location unless the assembly is violent.
	b. A private organization can legally prohibit assembly at its physical location because it is not the functional equivalent of a town and, therefore, not a state actor subject to the requirements of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
	c. A private organization cannot legally prohibit assembly at its physical location because it is the functional equivalent of a town and, therefore, not a state actor subject to the requirements of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
	d. Freedom of assembly is not subject to a private/public distinction.

What was the outcome of the ruling in Hustler Magazine v. Falwell?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Court held that public figures may recover for the intentional infliction of emotional distress from a publication.
	b. The Court held that public figures may not recover for the intentional infliction of emotional distress from a publication unless such speech is a false statement of the facts.
	c. The Court held that public figures may recover for the intentional infliction of emotional distress from a publication unless such speech is a false statement of the facts.
	d. The Court held that public figures may not recover for the intentional infliction of emotional distress from a publication so long as such speech was not done with actual malice, or it could not reasonably be construed to state actual facts about its subject.

What was the outcome of the ruling in Near v. State of Minnesota Ex Rel. Olson?

Choose one answer.

	a. The government could not censor or otherwise prohibit a publication in advance.
	b. The government could censor or otherwise prohibit a publication in advance.
	c. The government could censor or otherwise prohibit a publication in advance if said publication had a history of speech that violated the “clear and present danger test.”
	d. The government could censor or otherwise prohibit a publication in advance if said publication had a history of speech that was obscene.

What was the outcome of the ruling in New York Times v. United States?

Choose one answer.

	a. The government could censor or otherwise prohibit a publication in advance.
	b. The government could not censor or otherwise prohibit a publication in advance.
	c. The government could censor or otherwise prohibit a publication in advance if the material to be published was a threat to national security.
	d. The government could censor or otherwise prohibit a publication in advance if the material to be published was classified.

What was the outcome of the ruling in Texas v. Johnson?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Court held that Johnson's burning of a US flag was not a protected expression under the First Amendment.
	b. The Court held that Johnson's burning of a US flag was a protected expression under the First Amendment but that states could create laws to ban flag burning.
	c. The Court held that Texas could arrest citizens for burning the US flag.
	d. The Court held that Johnson's burning of a US flag was protected expression under the First Amendment.

Which legal document contained the first written guarantee of the freedom of assembly in the US?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Declaration of the United States
	b. The US Constitution
	c. The Pennsylvania Declaration of Rights of 1776
	d. None of the above

According to the Fifth Amendment, is it legal for the government to take citizen’s private property?

Choose one answer.

	a. No, not under any circumstance.
	b. Yes, but only with just compensation.
	c. Yes, but only if that citizen has committed a crime and is afforded the due process of law.
	d. Both B and C are correct

From where did the concept of the right to a speedy trial contained in the Sixth Amendment come?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Declaration of Independence
	b. The Magna Carta and the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776
	c. It is original to the Constitution.
	d. French Philosophy

How did the Court begin to interpret the “cruel and unusual” clause in the Eighth Amendment as time passed?

Choose one answer.

	a. They decided that they must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.
	b. Their interpretation was unclear at first.
	c. At first, the Court was inclined to an historical style on interpretation, determining whether or not a punishment was cruel and unusual by looking to see if it or a sufficiently similar variant was considered cruel and unusual in 1789.
	d. They simply decided whether the punishment fit the crime.

How did the Court initially interpret the “cruel and unusual” clause in the Eighth Amendment?

Choose one answer.

	a. They decided that they must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.
	b. Their interpretation was unclear at first.
	c. At first, the Court was inclined to an historical style on interpretation, determining whether or not a punishment was cruel and unusual by looking to see if it or a sufficiently similar variant was considered cruel and unusual in 1789.
	d. They simply decided whether the punishment fit the crime.

What are the primary purposes of the Fifth Amendment?

Choose one answer.

	a. To assure that people charged with capital crimes are done only through indictments by Grand Juries.
	b. To prevent people from being charged for the same crime twice.
	c. To not force people to be a witness against themselves in a criminal trial.
	d. All of the above

What are the two lines of interpretation that the Court has wavered on concerning the Fourth amendment and the legality of searches?

Choose one answer.

	a. The “warrants-with- broad-exceptions approach” and the “reasonableness approach.”
	b. The “warrants-with- broad-exceptions approach” and the “warrant-only approach.”
	c. The “warrants-with- narrow-exceptions approach” and the “reasonableness approach.”
	d. The “warrants-with- narrow-exceptions approach” and the “warrant-only approach.”

What is one reason the Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to a public trial?

Choose one answer.

	a. It helps to assure the criminal defendant a fair and accurate adjudication of guilt or innocence.
	b. It helps attract potential jurors.
	c. It discourages perjury.
	d. Both A and C

What was the outcome of the ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright?

Choose one answer.

	a. After being charged with a crime, the defendant must get a trial date within 4 weeks.
	b. The Constitution requires the states to provide defense attorneys to criminal defendants charged with serious offenses who cannot afford lawyers themselves.
	c. Detained criminal suspects, prior to police questioning, must be informed of their constitutional right to an attorney and against self-incrimination.
	d. A Defendant can opt to have a private trial as opposed to a public trial to protect his or her First Amendment rights.

What was the outcome of the ruling in Miranda v. Arizona?

Choose one answer.

	a. After being charged with a crime, the defendant must get a trial date within 4 weeks.
	b. The Constitution requires the states to provide defense attorneys to criminal defendants charged with serious offenses who cannot afford lawyers themselves.
	c. Detained criminal suspects, prior to police questioning, must be informed of their constitutional right to an attorney and against self-incrimination.
	d. A Defendant can opt to have a private trial as opposed to a public trial to protect his or her First Amendment rights.

Which of the following statements best describes the historical philosophy behind the Fourth Amendment?

Choose one answer.

	a. It was born out of both the colonial experience and experience back in England.
	b. It was solely a response to the colonial experience.
	c. It was primarily a response to experience back in England.
	d. It strictly came from French philosophy.

How did the outcome of the ruling in Lemon v. Kurtzman outline the requirements for legislation concerning religion?

Choose one answer.

	a. The government's action must have a secular legislative purpose.
	b. The government's action must not have the primary effect of either advancing or inhibiting religion.
	c. The government's action must not result in an “excessive government entanglement” with religion.
	d. All of the above

What is the central argument in the article entitled, “The Public Debate on the Religiosity of the Public Debate of Bioethics in the USA”?

Choose one answer.

	a. Pluralistic societies of today should favor one moral tradition or religious framework when making policy arguments because it simplifies the issue for the public.
	b. Pluralistic societies of today should not favor only one moral tradition or religious framework when making policy arguments because it leads to the discrimination of others who are also affected by such discourse.
	c. The debate on bioethics should avoid any address of religious morality.
	d. None of the above

What is the central point of the article entitled, “Navigating Religious Rights of Teachers and Students: Establishment, Accommodation, Neutrality, or Hostility?”

Choose one answer.

	a. The Supreme Court rulings on religion in public schools can be summarized by saying that public schools need not accommodate religion just as they do other non-curricular activities.
	b. The Supreme Court rulings on religion in public schools can be summarized by saying public schools have the right to coerce or compel students to participate in religious activities.
	c. The Supreme Court rulings on religion in public schools can be summarized by saying that religious expression should be neither promoted nor inhibited in public schools.
	d. The Supreme Court rulings on religion in public schools can be summarized by saying that religious expression should be inhibited in public schools.

What was the outcome of the ruling in Boerne v. Flores?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Court struck down the Religious Freedom Reformation Act (RFRA).
	b. The Court struck upheld the Religious Freedom Reformation Act (RFRA).
	c. It determined that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools.
	d. It determined that it is constitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools.

What was the outcome of the ruling in Engel v. Vitale?

Choose one answer.

	a. It protected students from being forced to salute the American flag and say the Pledge of Allegiance in school.
	b. It allowed schools to expel students who refused to salute the American flag and say the Pledge of Allegiance in school.
	c. It determined that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools.
	d. It determined that it is constitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools.

What was the outcome of the ruling in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette?

Choose one answer.

	a. It protected students from being forced to salute the American flag and say the Pledge of Allegiance in school.
	b. It allowed schools to expel students who refused to salute the American flag and say the Pledge of Allegiance in school.
	c. It determined that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools.
	d. It determined that it is constitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools.

While the First Amendment protects individuals’ rights to practice any religion, it also prevents what else with regards to religion?

Choose one answer.

	a. The open expression of religious beliefs by elected officials.
	b. The open expression of religious beliefs by government workers.
	c. The establishment of a national religion.
	d. It makes no other address of religion.

Why did many of the early settlers of Massachusetts flee England?

Choose one answer.

	a. They were fleeing religious persecution coming from the Church of England.
	b. They sought to practice Catholicism freely.
	c. They wanted to avoid heavy taxes.
	d. They wanted to establish a new government that enforced the separation of church and state.

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplish?

Choose one answer.

	a. It abolished unequal application of voter registration requirements.
	b. It prohibited discrimination in public accommodations.
	c. It prohibited employment discrimination by any business employing more than 25 people.
	d. All of the above

What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 accomplish?

Choose one answer.

	a. It granted African Americans the right to vote.
	b. It institutionalized Jim Crow laws at the national level.
	c. It authorized the federal government to assume control of the voter registration process in any state or voting district that had in 1964 employed a literacy or other qualifying test for African Americans to register to vote or to vote.
	d. Both A and C.

What is Rosa Parks famous for doing?

Choose one answer.

	a. She organized several protests of racial segregation in Alabama in the 1960s.
	b. She organized the bus boycott of Montgomery, Alabama in 1955.
	c. She was arrested for refusing to move from a luncheon counter that served only whites.
	d. She refused to move from the front rows of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama when the driver ordered her to give up her seat when another white person boarded the bus.

What is the central argument in the section of Free at Last entitled, “The Genius of the Black Church?”

Choose one answer.

	a. The black churches during the civil rights era were helpful to the cause primarily because they helped garner support from religious whites.
	b. The black churches during the civil rights era were helpful to the cause primarily because they promoted a communal spirituality that helped spawn a movement that sought its objectives by peaceful means.
	c. The black churches during the civil rights era were helpful to the cause primarily because they provided financial support for the cause.
	d. The black churches during the civil rights era were helpful to the cause primarily because they provided an organizational front for the cause.

What is the “separate but equal” doctrine?

Choose one answer.

	a. An interpretation of the Constitution that required states to racially integrate public facilities.
	b. An interpretation of the Constitution that did not require states to racially integrate public facilities but rather required them to provide separate facilities for whites and non-whites that were of equal quality.
	c. An interpretation of the Constitution that required southern states to provide public facilities for all races that were equal in quality to Northern public facilities.
	d. None of the above

What was the basis for the dissent in Dred Scott v. Sanford?

Choose one answer.

	a. Justice Curtis argued that any person deemed by any state to be its citizen was also, by definition, a citizen of the United States.
	b. Justice Curtis argued that slavery was not constitutional, thus, any citizen who had been granted freedom from his owner was now always free.
	c. Justice Curtis contested the basic distinction that Chief Justice Taney had made between state and national citizenship.
	d. Justice Curtis argued that any person deemed by the United States to be its citizen was also, by definition, a citizen of all states.

What was the basis for the dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson?

Choose one answer.

	a. Justice Harlan advocated social equality among the races.
	b. Justice Harlan that segregation on the railcars violated blacks’ constitutionally protected right to equal protection of the law.
	c. Justice Harlan argued that whites were dominant and should remain that way, but that the Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
	d. Both A and B.

What was the outcome of the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court.
	b. The Court established the “separate but equal” doctrine.
	c. The Court ruled that states could not pass legislation undermining the Court’s previous ruling that segregation of schools was unconstitutional.
	d. The Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.

What was the outcome of the ruling in Cooper v. Aaron?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court.
	b. The Court established the “separate but equal” doctrine.
	c. The Court ruled that states could not pass legislation undermining the Court’s previous ruling that segregation of schools was unconstitutional.
	d. The Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.

What was the outcome of the ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court.
	b. The Court established the “separate but equal” doctrine.
	c. The Court ruled that states could not pass legislation undermining the Court’s previous ruling that segregation of schools was unconstitutional.
	d. The Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.

What was the outcome of the ruling in Grutter v. Bollinger / Gratz v. Bollinger cases?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Court ruled that a university's use of racial “quotas” in its admissions process was unconstitutional, but a school's use of affirmative action to accept more minority applicants was in some circumstances.
	b. The Court ruled that the use of affirmative action in school admission is constitutional if it treats race as one factor among many.
	c. The Court ruled that the use of affirmative action in school admission was categorically unconstitutional.
	d. The Court ruled that the use of affirmative action in school admission violated the equal protection clause.

What was the outcome of the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court.
	b. The Court established the “separate but equal” doctrine.
	c. The Court ruled that states could not pass legislation undermining the Court’s previous ruling that segregation of schools was unconstitutional.
	d. The Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.

What was the outcome of the ruling in Regents of University of California v. Bakke?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Court ruled that a university's use of racial “quotas” in its admissions process was unconstitutional, but a school's use of affirmative action to accept more minority applicants was in some circumstances.
	b. The Court ruled that the use of affirmative action in school admission is constitutional if it treats race as one factor among many.
	c. The Court ruled that the use of affirmative action in school admission was categorically unconstitutional.
	d. The Court ruled that the use of affirmative action in school admission violated the equal protection clause.

What was the three-fifths clause of the Constitution?

Choose one answer.

	a. It asserted that every three “unfree persons,” or slaves, in Northern states would count as five people when calculating the size of a state’s congressional delegation.
	b. It specified the size of the majority needed in Congress to overrule institutionalized slavery.
	c. It asserted that every five “unfree persons,” or slaves, would count as three people when calculating the size of a state’s congressional delegation.
	d. It was a policy idea that was never adopted in the Constitution that was proposed by Northern states to Southern states on how to count slaves when calculating the size of a state’s congressional delegation.

What were Jim Crow laws?

Choose one answer.

	a. Laws that legalized slavery.
	b. Laws that outlawed slavery.
	c. Laws that prohibited segregation.
	d. Laws that legalized segregation.

What were slave codes?

Choose one answer.

	a. State laws that authorized punishments for slaves who resisted their master’s commands.
	b. State laws that determined the price of slaves.
	c. State laws that prohibited slaves from owning property.
	d. All of the above

Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?

Choose one answer.

	a. Charles Hamilton Houston
	b. Thurgood Marshall
	c. Ralph Johnson Bunche
	d. Marcus Garvey

How often has an Equal Rights Amendment for gender equality went before Congress?

Choose one answer.

	a. It was before every Congress since 1923 until it passed in 1972 and then was reintroduced in 1982 and has been before every Congress since.
	b. It was first introduced in 1972 and has been before every Congress since.
	c. It was first introduced in 1982 and has been before every Congress since.
	d. It was before every Congress since 1923 until it passed in 1972.

How were women granted the right to vote?

Choose one answer.

	a. Gradually individual states granted the right until all states had done so.
	b. It was granted by congressional legislation.
	c. An amendment to the Constitution was passed.
	d. It was granted through executive order.

How would you characterize the passage of the amendment granting women’s suffrage after it left Congress?

Choose one answer.

	a. The states ratified it quickly and overwhelmingly.
	b. It barely garnered the support necessary to be ratified.
	c. The states ratified it overwhelmingly but it was slow moving.
	d. The states did not ratify it.

What is the story behind suffrage protestors and Occoquan Workhouse?

Choose one answer.

	a. A group of females who attempted to protest in front of the White House for women’s suffrage were arrested and paid a $25 fine instead of going to the workhouse for a 60 day sentence.
	b. A group of females who attempted to protest in front of the White House for women’s suffrage were arrested and refused to pay a $25 fine so they accepted a sentence to the workhouse for 60 days.
	c. A group of females who attempted to protest in front of the White House for women’s suffrage were arrested and the court threatened to send them to the workhouse for a 60 day sentence, so they agreed not to protest again.
	d. A group of females who attempted to protested outside this workhouse because they were illegally forcing women to work without pay.

What unique strategy did Alice Paul employ in the fight for women’s suffrage?

Choose one answer.

	a. She got a law degree for the sole purpose of fighting for suffrage in the courts.
	b. She organized sit-ins.
	c. She circumvented the national government and focused on state legislation.
	d. She used a hunger strike.

What was President Wilson’s role in the suffrage movement?

Choose one answer.

	a. He supported it from the beginning.
	b. He never agreed to offer his support because he believed it was the right of individual states.
	c. He initially would not support an amendment for women’s suffrage but eventually was persuaded to offer his support.
	d. He initially supported an amendment for women’s suffrage but eventually was persuaded to change his position.

What was the first visible public demand for gender equality?

Choose one answer.

	a. It came in 1848, at the first Woman’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY where Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, who had met as abolitionists working against slavery, convened a two-day meeting of 300 women and men to call for justice for women.
	b. It came at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 where Susan B. Anthony made a plea for the Bill of Rights to include an amendment to guarantee gender equality.
	c. It came after the Civil War, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth fought in vain to have women included in new constitutional amendments giving rights to former slaves.
	d. None of the above

What was the outcome of the ruling in Frontiero v. Richardson?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Court held that the Constitution inherently supported equal rights for women.
	b. The Court upheld state restrictions on the working hours of women as justified by the special state interest in protecting women's health.
	c. The Court ruled that a law classifying benefits on the basis of gender violated the Constitution.
	d. The Court ruled that a policy which did not allow the hiring of mothers with pre-school aged children because they were assumed to be unreliable employees was not unconstitutional.

What was the outcome of the ruling in Minor v. Happersett?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Court held that the Constitution did not grant women the right to vote.
	b. The Court held that the Constitution did grant women the right to vote.
	c. The Court held that the Constitution did grant women the right to vote but only conditionally.
	d. The Court held that the Constitution inherently supported equal rights for women.

What was the outcome of the ruling in Muller v. Oregon?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Court held that the Constitution did not grant women the right to vote.
	b. The Court upheld state restrictions on the working hours of women as justified by the special state interest in protecting women's health.
	c. The Court overthrew state restrictions on the working hours of women as justified by the special state interest in protecting women's health.
	d. The Court held that the Constitution inherently supported equal rights for women.

What was the outcome of the ruling in Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corp?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Court held that the Constitution inherently supported equal rights for women.
	b. The Court upheld state restrictions on the working hours of women as justified by the special state interest in protecting women's health.
	c. The Court overthrew state restrictions on the working hours of women as justified by the special state interest in protecting women's health.
	d. The Court ruled that a policy which did not allow the hiring of mothers with pre-school aged children because they were assumed to be unreliable employees was not unconstitutional.

What was the outcome of the ruling in United States v. Virginia?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Court struck down the Virginia Military Institute’s long-standing male-only admission policy.
	b. The Court upheld the Virginia Military Institute’s long-standing male-only admission policy.
	c. The Court ruled that a law classifying benefits on the basis of gender violated the Constitution.
	d. The Court held that the Constitution inherently supported equal rights for women.

What were the central premises of the Equal Rights Amendment?

Choose one answer.

	a. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
	b. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
	c. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.
	d. All of the above

When was the Equal Rights Amendment passed essentially guaranteeing equal rights across gender?

Choose one answer.

	a. 1848
	b. 1919
	c. 1982
	d. It was never passed.

When were women granted suffrage in the United States?

Choose one answer.

	a. They always had the right to vote.
	b. 1919
	c. 1965
	d. 1848

Which amendment granted women’s suffrage?

Choose one answer.

	a. The 11th Amendment.
	b. The 19th Amendment.
	c. The 27th Amendment.
	d. The 14th Amendment.

What did Colorado’s Amendment 2 accomplish?

Choose one answer.

	a. It invalidated all existing state and local provisions that discriminated against gays and prohibited any future enactment of any such legislation.
	b. It validated all existing state and local provisions that discriminated against gays.
	c. It legalized gay marriage in Colorado.
	d. It created same-sex medical benefits.

What does Ahoura Afshar say are the two main anti-gay rights claims made by the religious right in the article entitled, “The Anti-gay Movement in the United States: The Framing of Religion?”

Choose one answer.

	a. Homosexuality is a sin and a threat to society.
	b. Gay rights are a threat to society and they seek to provide special rights that are not provided to other groups.
	c. There is no need for gay rights laws because the Constitution already protects everyone equally and gay rights are a threat to society.
	d. None of the above

What does the author of “Out of the Closets and Into the Courts” argue is the most important factor determining whether a gay rights claim will be successful in court?

Choose one answer.

	a. What state the case is heard in.
	b. The ability of the interests behind the case to mobilize organizational resources.
	c. The ideological makeup of the Court at the time.
	d. It is completely random. There is no single factor.

What does the author of “Out of the Closets and Into the Courts” say about the impact of winning or losing in the courts on the lives of gay people?

Choose one answer.

	a. She argues that successes are likely to serve as rallying cries for the opposition.
	b. She argues that there is little effect because courts are not designed to effect social change.
	c. She argues that the opportunities present will determine how winning and losing in the courts affects the lives of gay people.
	d. None of the above

What happened at the Stonewall riots?

Choose one answer.

	a. The police raided a gay bar and the patrons fought back.
	b. There was a march on Washington for gay rights and it became violent.
	c. A group of gay rights activists organized sit-in at a bar that refused service to gays.
	d. A concerted multi-city protest against the oppression of gays was organized and it became violent in many cities.

What is the central premise of Ahoura Afshar’s, “The Anti-gay Movement in the United States: The Framing of Religion?”

Choose one answer.

	a. The religious right’s role in constructing a conservative Christian frame in order to mobilize voters and activists against the gay rights movement has been greatly exaggerated.
	b. Religious groups have begun to show more support for gay rights.
	c. The religious right has not done a very good job of framing gay rights issues.
	d. The religious right actively works to construct a conservative Christian frame in order to mobilize voters and activists against the gay rights movement.

What types of gay rights issues have been heard at any level of the court system?

Choose one answer.

	a. Gay Marriage.
	b. Sodomy laws.
	c. Job discrimination.
	d. All of the above

What was the outcome of the ruling in Baehr v. Lewin?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage did not constitute sex discrimination under the state’s constitution.
	b. The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage constituted sex discrimination under the state’s constitution.
	c. The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that employers could not discriminate based on sexual preference.
	d. The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that employers’ right to discriminate based on sexual preference was protected under the state’s constitution.

What was the outcome of the ruling in Baker v. State of Vermont?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Vermont Supreme Court ruled that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage did not constitute sex discrimination under the state’s constitution.
	b. The Vermont Supreme Court ruled that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage constituted sex discrimination under the state’s constitution.
	c. The Vermont Supreme Court ruled that the state was not required to provide all the same benefits to same-sex couples that it did to other married couples.
	d. The Vermont Supreme Court ruled that the state was required to provide all the same benefits to same-sex couples that it did to other married couples.

What was the outcome of the ruling in Bowers v. Hardwick?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Court overthrew the constitutionality of a sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults when applied to homosexuals.
	b. The Court ruled that Colorado’s Amendment 2 was unconstitutional.
	c. The Court upheld constitutionality of a sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults when applied to homosexuals.
	d. The Court ruled that Colorado’s Amendment 2 was constitutional.

What was the outcome of the ruling in Lawrence v. Texas?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Court upheld the constitutionality of a sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults when applied to homosexuals.
	b. The Court ruled that Colorado’s Amendment 2 was unconstitutional.
	c. The Court ruled that state laws banning homosexual sodomy are unconstitutional as a violation of the right to privacy.
	d. The Court ruled that Colorado’s Amendment 2 was unconstitutional.

What was the outcome of the ruling in Romer v. Evans?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Court upheld the constitutionality of a sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults when applied to homosexuals.
	b. The Court ruled that Colorado’s Amendment 2 was unconstitutional.
	c. The Court ruled that state laws banning homosexual sodomy are unconstitutional as a violation of the right to privacy.
	d. The Court ruled that Colorado’s Amendment 2 was constitutional.