Q 01/05

Which 1966 Supreme Court ruling requires police to tell suspects in custody that they may stay silent?

A) Mapp v. Ohio

B) Miranda v. Arizona

C) Escobedo v. Illinois

D) Terry v. Ohio

Answer · why

B) Miranda v. Arizona

Miranda v. Arizona threw out Ernesto Miranda's confession to a Phoenix kidnapping because police never told him his rights. He was retried without the...

Q 02/05

In Tinker v. Des Moines, students were suspended for wearing what to protest the Vietnam War?

A) Peace-sign buttons

B) Anti-war T-shirts

C) Black armbands

D) White headbands

Answer · why

C) Black armbands

Black armbands got 13-year-old Mary Beth Tinker, her brother John and their friend Christopher Eckhardt suspended in December 1965. The Court said stu...

Q 03/05

Which 1944 Supreme Court case upheld the wartime removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast?

A) Korematsu v. United States

B) Hirabayashi v. United States

C) Ex parte Milligan

D) Ex parte Quirin

Answer · why

A) Korematsu v. United States

Korematsu v. United States was repudiated by the Court in 2018, when Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that it was gravely wrong the day it was decided...

Q 04/05

In Texas v. Johnson (1989), the Supreme Court protected which act of protest as symbolic speech?

A) Burning a draft card

B) Burning an American flag

C) Blocking a courthouse door

D) Occupying a federal building

Answer · why

B) Burning an American flag

Burning an American flag was a crime in 48 states until this 5–4 ruling. Gregory Lee Johnson had set one alight in Dallas during the 1984 Republican N...

Q 05/05

Which secret Vietnam War study did a 1971 Supreme Court ruling let The New York Times go on printing?

A) The Moynihan Report

B) The Venona Files

C) The Pentagon Papers

D) The Kerner Report

Answer · why

C) The Pentagon Papers

The Pentagon Papers ran to 47 volumes and about 7,000 pages. Daniel Ellsberg, who had helped produce the study, let a Times reporter read 43 of the vo...