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What is the lowest level of the federal court system?
a) District courts
b) Circuit Courts
c) Supreme Courts
d) County Courts

What is the middle level of the federal court system?
a) District Courts
b) Circuit Courts
c) Supreme Court
d) County Court

What is the highest level of the federal court system?
a) District Courts
b) Circuit Courts
c) Supreme Court
d) County Court

Which of the following is NOT a type of cases heard by federal courts?
a) Cases involving federal law
b) Cases with diversity jurisdiction
c) Appeals cases
d) All of the above are heard by Federal Courts

Which of the following BEST describes the difference between criminal and civil court?
a) Criminal court includes Federal crimes, Civil court includes lower crimes
b) Criminal court handles cases where someone has violated the law, Civil cases involve conflicts between people/groups that
c) Criminal cases can be punished by death, Civil Cases can be punished by jail time
d) Criminal courts deal with conflicts over the law, Civil cases deal with conflicts about the Constitution

How many levels of state court are there?
a) 3
b) 10
c) 5
d) 1

What case establishes the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review?
a) Marbury v. Madison
b) Gideon v. Wainwright
c) Tinker v. Des Moines
d) Plessy v. Ferguson

Which case decided that criminal suspects must be informed of their rights to an attorney and remain silent?
a) Mapp v. Ohio
b) Gideon v. Wainwright
c) Tinker v. Des Moines
d) Miranda v. Arizona

Which Supreme Court cases legalized abortion in the U.S on the basis of a woman’s right to privacy?
a) Plessy v. Ferguson
b) U.S v. Nixon
c) Roe v. Wade
d) Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier

Which Supreme Court case forbids the use illegally obtained evidence from being used in a criminal trial?
a) Gideon v. Wainwright
b) Tinker v. Des Moines
c) Mapp v. Ohio
d) Marbury v. Madison

__________________________ was the Supreme Court case that decided that there could be separate but equal facilities for Black and White people, but ___________________ overturned that cases ending segregation in schools.
a) U.S v. Nixon, Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier
b) Dred Scott v. Sanford, Brown v. Board of Education
c) Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, Roe v. Wade
d) Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education

Which Supreme Court case decided students have the right to symbolic speech in school as long as it is not disruptive?
a) Dred Scott v. Sanford
b) Tinker v. Des Moines
c) Marbury v. Madison
d) Miranda v. Arizona

33. What Supreme Court cases decided that school newspapers could be censored by teachers and administrators?
a) U.S v. Nixon
b) Roe v. Wade
c) Tinker v. Des Moines
d) Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier

34. How many district courts are there in the U.S?
a) 94
b) 9
c) 13
d) 10

How many circuit courts are there in the U.S?
a) 94
b) 9
c) 13
d) 10

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