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Civil Liberties Review

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is protected by the first amendment?

a)

Speech, Assembly, Religion, Press, Petition

b)

Right to bear arms

c)

no quartering of troops

d)

no unreasonable searches and seizures

2.

What is protected by the Second Amendment?

a)

Speech, assembly, press, religion, petition

b)

Right to bear arms

c)

no quartering of troops

d)

no unreasonable searches and seizures

3.

What is protected by the third amendment?

a)

speech, assembly, press, religion, petition

b)

right to bear arms

c)

no quartering of troops

d)

no unreasonable searches and seizures

4.

What is protected by the 4th amendment?

a)

Speech, assembly, religion, petition, press

b)

right to bear arms

c)

no quartering of troops

d)

no unreasonable searches and seizures

5.

“students (n)or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” 

“school officials do not possess absolute authority over their students.” 

The above quotes would have came from the ruling in which case? 

a)

Tinker v. Des Moines

b)

Lemon v. Kurtzman

c)

Schenck v. United States

d)

Texas v. Johnson

6.

In 1961 the Supreme Court ruled that illegally obtained evidence cannot be used in state courts, which of these constitutional rights is protected by this?

a)

right to counsel

b)

right to free speech

c)

right to protection against self-incrimination

d)

right to protection against unreasonable search and seizure

7.

The free exercise clause gives people the right to

a)

assemble and express their views on public matters

b)

hold meetings and parades on public streets without permits

c)

believe what they choose in matters of religion

d)

exercise wherever they choose

8.

If you are arrested and you "plead the fifth," what are you doing?

a)

pleading innocent to the charges

b)

You are not answering questions that might incriminate yourself

c)

You are not meeting with a lawyer

d)

You are saying you are too young to be arrested for a crime

9.

The case of Mapp v. Ohio is most significant for creating the...

a)

Exclusionary Rule

b)

Free exercise clause

c)

conceal and carry laws

d)

establishment clause

10.

Which of the following is NOT a part of the Lemon Test created in the case Lemon v. Kurtzman?

a)

Laws must not excessively entangle government and religion

b)

Laws must not advance or inhibit religion

c)

laws must have a secular purpose

d)

laws can prohibit religion from being practiced if it is during war

11.

Court case that ruled kids do not lose free speech rights at school

a)

Tinker v. Des Moines

b)

Gideon V. Wainwright

c)

Hazlewood v. Kuhlmeier

d)

Miranda v. Arizona

12.

Court case that insured that people have a right to an attorney no matter what kind of case it is

a)

Tinker v. Des Moines

b)

Gideon V. Wainwright

c)

Hazlewood v. Kuhlmeier

d)

Miranda v. Arizona

13.

Court case that protected a right to an attorney during a police interrogation.

a)

Tinker v. Des Moines

b)

Gideon V. Wainwright

c)

Hazlewood v. Kuhlmeier

d)

Miranda v. Arizona

14.

According to past rulings, what has the Supreme Court decided is a violation of the separation of church and state?

a)

election of a clergy member to public office

b)

appointment of chaplains to armed services

c)

granting of tax-exempt status to churches

d)

recitation of prayers in public schools

15.

How are freedom of speech and press limited?

a)

the 14th amendment

b)

laws against libel and slander

c)

checks and balances of state governments

d)

the government's power of eminent domain

16.

One legal protection guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment is that a person accused of a crime must be

a)

given a fair punishment

b)

allowed access to a lawyer

c)

tried for the crime only once

d)

given a warrant for his arrest

17.

In this case the Supreme Court ruled that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual's right to keep and bear arms.

a)

Schenck v. United States

b)

Mapp v. Ohio

c)

District of Columbia v. Heller

d)

Gideon v. Wainwright