Tuesday, Dec. 2
WRITE YOUR ANSWERS ON A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER.
GOOD LUCK !1. How does the First Amendment begin?
A. "Four score and seven years ago...."
B. "When, in the course of human events...."
C. "Freedom of speech and of the press shall not be abridged...."
D. "Congress shall make no law...."
2. The Bill of Rights is:
A. The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
B. The statement police must read to you when you are arrested.
C. The opening paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.
D. The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.
3.The First Amendment protects students while at school.
A. True
B. False
4.Which of the following is not a right explicitly protected by the First Amendment?
A. Press
B. Privacy
C. Assembly
D. Religion
5. Which of the following categories of speech is never protected by the First Amendment?
A. Indecent speech on the Internet
B. Four-letter words
C. Obscenity
D. Nudity
6. The First Amendment protects a person's right to burn the American flag as a form of political protest?
A. True
B. False
7. Bart is ticked off. To make time for more standardized testing, the public school he attends has decided to reduce recess to three minutes a day. To protest the school's decision, he publishes a one-page
flyer that says "Recess Rules! Standardized Testing Drools." As he has seen many other community activists do before, he takes his
flyers to the town square, where he peacefully offers copies to passerby. Which of the following acts probably violates his First Amendment rights?
A. A police officer politely orders Bart to stop distribution and go home
B. A local merchant, an ardent support of standardized testing, angrily rips the
flyers out of Bart's hands and shreds them
C. Bart's mother, embarrassed by the all the hullabaloo, confiscates the
flyers and grounds him for two weeks
D. All of the above
8. The U.S. Supreme Court has recognized that the First Amendment protects public school students while in school. Neither "students nor teachers," the Court said, "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." From which famous Supreme Court case did that language first come?
A. New York Times v. Sullivan
B. Tinker v. Des
Moines Indep. School District
C.
Hazelwood School District v.
KuhlmeierD. Roe v. Wade
9. The Student Times is publishing a story about Leopard
O'Shay, America's newest singing sensation, which includes a review of his latest CD, Spots Unplugged. As the Times feature editor, you'd like to use a photo of the rock star to illustrate your story. Unfortunately,
O'Shay has just begun a World Tour and the chance of your photographers getting a shot of him in person is nil. What is your safest legal option?
A. Scan the cover art from Spots Unplugged.
B. Find a Leopard
O'Shay fan site on the Internet and download a photo from there.
C. Use the photo of
O'Shay that ran on last month's cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
D. Call
O'Shay's record company and ask their publicity department to send you a photo to use with your story.
10. Write the First Amendment:
11. Define Libel:
