US Government - Supreme Court Justices
Test Quiz
1. Who was the only person to serve as both President of the United States and Supreme Court Justice?
a. John Adams
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. Jimmy Carter
d. William Howard Taft
e. Franklin Roosevelt
2. Which Chief Justice signed the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War?
a. John Marshall
b. John Jay
c. Earl Warren
d. Thurgood Marshall
e. William Howard Taft
3. Who was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice?
a. John Marshall
b. John Jay
c. Earl Warren
d. Thurgood Marshall
e. William Howard Taft
4. What Chief Justice is credited with establishing the Supreme Court as a powerful and independent third branch of the government?
a. John Marshall
b. John Jay
c. Earl Warren
d. Thurgood Marshall
e. William Howard Taft
5. Which Chief Justice headed up a commission that investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy?
a. John Marshall
b. John Jay
c. Earl Warren
d. Thurgood Marshall
e. William Howard Taft
6. What United States President appointed Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court?
a. Jimmy Carter
b. John F. Kennedy
c. Franklin Roosevelt
d. Lyndon B. Johnson
e. Ronald Reagan
7. What famous court case did Thurgood Marshall take to the Supreme Court while he was still a lawyer?
a. Brown v. Board of Education
b. McCullock v. Maryland
c. Plessy v. Ferguson
d. Marbury v. Madison
e. U.S. v. Nixon
8. Who was the first woman Supreme Court Justice?
a. Elena Kagan
b. Sandra Day O'Connor
c. Sonia Sotomayor
d. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
e. Martha Washington
9. True or False: President Abraham Lincoln appointed the most Supreme Court justices of any president.
a. TRUE
b. FALSE
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10. Who was the first hispanic Supreme Court Justice?
a. Thurgood Marshall
b. William Howard Taft
c. Elena Kagan
d. Sonia Sotomayor
e. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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