1.
Which of
the
following is not a reason that Lewis Tappan and the Amistad
Committee had for defending the Africans of the Amistad?
(A) They
were concerned about the safety and well-being of the captives.
(B) They
saw the controversy as an opportunity to build support for the
abolitionist cause.
(C) They
believed that freedom for the captives might lead to an opportunity to
bring Christianity
to Africa.
(D) They
were anxious to take any action that might weaken support for the pro-slavery Van Buren Administration.
2. What
would have been the likely result
if, as the Van Buren Administration urged, the court had accepted the
demand of the Spanish
government
that the Amistad captives
be returned under Pinckneys Treaty of 1795?
(A) The
captives would have been transported to Africa
on a Spanish ship.
(B) The
captives would have been transported to Spain.
(C) The
captives would have been transported to Cuba, where they would have become the slaves of Montes
and Ruiz.
(D) The
captives would have been transported to Cuba, where they would have
been executed.
3.
Oscar Wilde sued Queensberry for
doing what?
(A) For
publicly declaring Wilde to be a homosexual.
(B) For
trespassing, after he barged into his
home and demanded that Wilde stop seeing his son.
(C) For
leaving a card with a porter identifying Wilde as a “posing” sodomite.
(D) For
publishing in the magazine Chameleon an article
accusing Wilde of
committing “gross indecencies” with dozens of men.
4. How might Wilde
have avoided arrest and imprisonment?
(A) By
confessing and apologizing.
(B) By
fleeing to France.
(C) By
accepting the Magistrate’s demand for a one hundred pound bribe.
(D) By
agreeing to withdraw from publication his offensive writings.
5. Who made
the
decision to prosecute the “Chicago
8?”
(A) Attorney
General John Mitchell.
(B) Attorney
General Ramsey Clark.
(C) Mayor
Daley.
(D) J.
Edgar Hoover.
6. Which
best describes the philosophy of the YIPPIES, as represented by Chicago 7
defendants Abbie
Hoffman and Jerry Rubin?
(A) The
YIPPIES were primarily an anti-war organization.
(B) The
YIPPIES were primarily an organization promoting black empowerment.
(C) The
YIPPIES were primarily an organization promoting nudism.
(D) The
YIPPIES were an organization promoting cultural revolution.
(E) The
YIPPIES were the youth branch of the national organization, HIPPIES.
7. What
development convinced investigators in the Chamberlain case that Lindy Chamberlain, and not a dingo, was
responsible for her daughter’s death?
(A) Azaria
Chamberlain’s matinee jacket was discovered in the Chamberlain garage.
(B) No
dingo DNA was found on the torn clothing of Azaria Chamberlain.
(C) Investigators
learned that “Azaria” meant “sacrifice in the desert.”
(D) A
forensic expert concluded that fetal blood was present in Chamberlain’s
car.
8.
Suspicions of the Chamberlains in the
public seemed to
be increased by which of the following?
(A)
The Chamberlains participated in
séances.
(B)
The
Chamberlains
were members of the Seventh
Day Adventist
Church, thought by many Australians to be a “cult.”
(C)
The Chamberlains were vegans.
(D)
The Chamberlains were “Goths” who always
dressed in
black.
(E)
The Chamberlains practiced astrology and
planned their
behavior based on horoscopes.
9.
Who was Anthony Comstock and what role
did he play in
the Stanford White murder case?
(A)
Comstock was a moral crusader who
appeared as a defense
witness at the trial to describe the depths of Stanford White’s
depravity.
(B)
Comstock was a member of Stanford White’s
“Sewer Club”
who provided evidence for the defense of White’s practice of
deflowering young
girls.
(C)
Comstock was a moral crusader who Harry
Thaw supplied
with evidence about White’s sexual activities in the hopes that
Comstock would
help bring down the famous architect.
(D)
Comstock was a close friend of White and
testified at
the trial that White had only the best of intentions with respect to
Evelyn
Nesbit.
(E)
Comstock led efforts to have White’s
Diana statue
removed from the top of Madison
Square Garden,
but had no connection to Harry Thaw or his trial.
10.
What was the defense strategy at the
first trial of
Harry Thaw?
(A)
The defense argued that the shooting was
“a moral
necessity” to prevent White from ruining more young girls in the
future.
(B)
The defense argued that Thaw was insane,
as he suffered
from a serious mental illness that had a long history in the Thaw
family.
(C)
The defense argued that Thaw’ killing of
White was
justifiable homicide, as America
has long recognized the right of a husband to avenge the sexually
assault of
his wife.
(D)
The defense argued that White was
responsible for his
own murder, because on the night of his killing Thaw was in a
drug-induced
frenzy and his drug addiction was directly attributable to White’s rape
of his
wife.
(E)
The defense argued that the killing was
in
self-defense, as White had previously threatened to kill Thaw.