POP QUIZ ( JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL )

           Twenty years ago this week, Justice Thurgood Marshall announced his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court.
            See what you know about his life and times.
1. How long did Marshall serve on the high court?
    a) 30 years
    b) 24 years
    c) 18 years
    d) 12 years
2. Which president appointed Marshall to the court?
    a) Ronald Reagan
    b) Jimmy Carter
    c) Richard Nixon
    d) Lydon Johnson
3. When nominated to the Supreme Court, Marshall was serving in this position.
    a) Attorney general
    b) U.S. District Court judge
    c) Solicitor general
    d) Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
4. Which justice did Marshall replace?
    a) Tom Clark
    b) Abe Fortas
    c) Ramsey Clark
    d) Felix Frankfurter
5. Who replaced Marshall?
    a) David Souter
    b) Clarence Thomas
    c) Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    d) Antonin Scalia
6. After graduating from Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore in 1925, Marshall attended this Pennsylvania school.
    a) University of Pennsylvania
    b) Cheyney University
    c) Temple University
    d) Lincoln University
7. Marshall would graduate from Howard University Law School after this school rejected him because of its segregation policy.
    a) University of Virginia
    b) University of Mississippi
    c) University of Maryland
    d) University of Alabama
8. At 31, Marshall won his first U.S. Supreme Court case.  Name the case.
    a) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kan.
    b) Chambers v. Flordia
    c) Loving v. Virginia
    d) Gideon v. Wainwright
9. As chief counsel for the NAACP, Marshall argued against segregation in public schools.  In what year was the famous Brown v. Board decision handed down?
    a) 1964
    b) 1960
    c) 1954
    d) 1950
10. True or False?  Before being named to the Supreme Court, Marshall had no judicial experience.


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Answers :  1. b  ; 2. d  ; 3. c  ; 4. a  ; 5. b  ; 6. d  ; 7. c  ; 8. b  ; 9. c  ; 10. False  - President John Kennedy appointed Marshall to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.