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Student name:__________
TRUE/FALSE – Write ‘T’ if the statement is true and ‘F’ if the statement is false.
1) In McCullen v. Coakley, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional a
state law that made it a crime to stand on a public road or sidewalk within 35 feet of a
reproductive health care facility.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) The Leonard Law applies only in California.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) The U.S. Supreme Court has identified a list of seven words that it always deems
“fighting words.”
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) The case of Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump addresses whether the
sidewalk in front of the White House constitutes a traditional public forum.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) Places like prisons, military bases, and utility poles typically are treated by courts to be
designated public forums.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 opinion in Elonis v. United States is an example of
the judicial principle of constitutional avoidance.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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MULTIPLE CHOICE – Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
7) The FCC’s adoption of the Restore Internet Freedom Order in 2017 was supported by:
A) the FCC’s Democratic commissioners.
B) the FCC’s Republican commissioners.
C) both the FCC’s Democratic and Republican commissioners.
D) only two commissioners and thus failed to take effect.
8) In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Snyder v. Phelps that the speech of the
members of the Westboro Baptist Church was
A) protected by the First Amendment.
B) not protected by the First Amendment because it constituted fighting words.
C) not protected by the First Amendment because it constituted hate speech.
D) not protected by the First Amendment because it constituted obscenity.
9) In order to justify censorship of the speech of a public school student that is sexually
lewd, vulgar, or offensive, a principal would be wise to look to the precedent and rule created by
the U.S. Supreme Court in which one of the following cases?
A) Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
B) Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier
C) Bethel School District v. Fraser
D) Morse v. Frederick
10) In the case of Barber v. Dearborn Public Schools involving a T-shirt that carried a
political message, a federal judge applied the rule and precedent from which of the following
four U.S. Supreme Court decisions?
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A) Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
B) Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier
C) Bethel School District v. Fraser
D) Morse v. Frederick
11) In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Elections
Commission
A) upheld a law restricting the speech rights of candidates for President.
B) upheld a law restricting spending by corporations on political advertising.
C) declared unconstitutional a law restricting the speech rights of candidates for
President.
D) declared unconstitutional a law restricting spending by corporations on political
advertising.
12) A federal district court in V. A. v. San Pasqual Valley Unified School District
in December 2017 issued a preliminary injunction stopping the school district from enforcing a
policy that prohibited:
A) sexually offensive messages on clothing.
B) wearing clothing with Confederate battle flag imagery.
C) kneeling during the playing of the national anthem.
D) posting disparaging messages about students on the Internet.
13) In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky that
the interior of a polling place on election day constitutes a:
A) traditional public forum.
B) designated public forum.
C) limited public forum.
D) nonpublic forum.
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FILL IN THE BLANK. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or
answers the question.
14) In 2017, the University of Florida spent more than $500,000 to prevent a
______________ veto when white nationalist Richard Spencer came to speak on its campus.
15) The speech at issue in the 2011 U.S. Supreme Court case of Snyder v. Phelps took
place near a ______________.
16) The speech at issue in the student-expression case of Morse v. Frederick involved a
banner that read ______________.
SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or
answers the question.
17) Set forth completely and accurately the rule created by the U.S. Supreme Court for
determining when public school administrators may permissibly censor speech that appears in a
school-sponsored newspaper.
18) Identify any two of the four books listed in Chapter 3 as being on the American Library
Association’s Top 10 most challenged books for 2017?
19) According to the textbook, what is the issue regarding student speech rights that the U.S.
Supreme Court has not yet considered but that it should address?
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20) Identify three things that the Clery Act requires of all colleges and universities that
participate in federal student-aid programs.
21) As discussed in the textbook, what major problem affecting student newspapers in
colleges is addressed in the laws of only a few states?
22) Identify the four criteria that must be satisfied for a time, place, and manner regulation to
pass constitutional muster under the intermediate scrutiny standard of judicial review.
23) In applying the fighting words doctrine in Connecticut v. Baccala in 2017, the
Supreme Court of Connecticut concluded that which group of individuals, in addition to police,
in Connecticut must endure more verbal abuse than others before speech rises to the level of
fighting words? In addition, what were examples of the words or phrases used by the defendant
in that case that landed her in trouble?
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Answer Key
Test name: chapter 3
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