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Chapter 8: The Judicial Branch

Self-Check Quizzes

1
What phrase appears on the outside of the Supreme Court building?
A)"Justice Is Blind"
B)"All Men Are Created Equal"
C)"To Preserve and Protect the Constitution of the United States"
D)"Equal Justice Under Law"
2
A court's authority to hear and decide cases is called _____.
A)appellate
B)jurisdiction
C)Ex parte Endo
D)maritime law
3
When state and federal courts share the authority to hear a case it is called _____.
A)concurrent jurisdiction
B)exclusive jurisdiction
C)original jurisdiction
D)appellate jurisdiction
4
Most federal cases are first heard in _____.
A)U.S. courts of appeals
B)U.S. district courts
C)the U.S. Supreme Court
D)remanded courts
5
All federal judges serve for _____.
A)six years
B)fourteen years
C)life
D)twenty years
6
A _____ gives guidance to other judges by offering a model upon which to base their own decisions on similar cases.
A)precedent
B)appeal
C)opinion
D)circuit
7
Thurgood Marshall was the _____.
A)first chief justice of the Supreme Court
B)first African American member of the Supreme Court
C)author of the majority opinion in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
D)first Italian American member of the Supreme Court
8
The Supreme Court case that established the power of judicial review was _____.
A)Marbury v. Madison
B)McCulloch v. Maryland
C)Gibbons v. Ogden
D)Engle v. Vitale
9
The Supreme Court usually chooses to review _____.
A)cases that have made major news headlines during the year
B)cases that involve important constitutional issues
C)only cases that involve important political figures
D)cases in which the death penalty is a factor
10
The Supreme Court case that overturned the precedent of "separate but equal" was _____.
A)Plessy v. Ferguson
B)Reynolds v. Sims
C)Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
D)Gideon v. Wainwright
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