Purdue LS204 2020 MAY Unit 3 Quiz Latest

LS204 Legal Research and Writing

Unit 3 Quiz   

Question 1                         

The best resource to determine legislative intent is:

Question options:

A) Supremacy clause

B) Stare decisis

C) Legislative history

D) American history

Question 2          What does the 42 represent in this statute?

42 U.S.C. §2000e-2 (1991)

Question options:

A) Section

B) Page

C) Volume

D) Title Number

E) Not able to determine from citation

Question 3          Please identify the error in this citation:

Ind. C. §9-19-10-3 (2007)

Question options:

A) Missing the word Statute (abbreviated Stat.)

B) Should be Code and not an abbreviation

C) State should be in Italics

D) Nothing, this citation looks good.

Question 4          The U.S. Constitution contains each of the following provisions except:

Question options:

A) Amendments

B) Preamble

C) Index

D) Articles

Question 5          Stare decisis is another term for:

Question options:

A) Preempt

B) Predictive

C) Precedent

D) Present

Question 6          When a court must follow case law, that decision is:

Question options:

A) Concurrent authority

B) Supreme authority

C) Supreme jurisdiction

D) Mandatory authority

Question 7          When different entities have jurisdiction, both courts have:

Question options:

A) Concurrent jurisdiction

B) Constructive jurisdiction

C) Cooperative jurisdiction

D) Competing jurisdiction

Question 8                         

When congress declares a law no longer in effect, it does the following to that law:

Question options:

A) Repeal

B) Amend

C) Remand

D) Trash

Question 9          To analyze a statute, it should be broken down into its:

Question options:

A) Elements

B) Aspects

C) Pieces

D) Subparts     

Question 10        When the president does nothing with a proposed bill that is passed in the last 10 days of the legislative, the following happens:

Question options:

A) The bill is approved as an unsigned law

B) The bill is vetoed as a pocket veto

C) The bill returns to the house

D) The bill returns to the senate