Question 1

Which of the following are First Amendment freedoms?

Accepted Answer

freedom of religion, speech, and assembly

Question 2

Which example shows a violation of someone's First Amendment rights?

Accepted Answer

A college fraternity composed of close friends who share living quarters is forced to admit women.

Question 3

What are the words used by the religion clause in the First Amendment?

Accepted Answer

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

Question 4

What are the names of the two distinct religion clauses found in the First Amendment?

Accepted Answer

the establishment clause and the free exercise claus

Question 5

What is the current definition of seditious speech?

Accepted Answer

speech that has an obvious and immediate danger of creating unrest or violence

Question 6

If students wore black sweatshirts to protest a war, what sort of free speech would they be exercising?

Accepted Answer

symbolic speech

Question 7

What is a shield law?

Accepted Answer

when journalists are protected from turning over the identities of their sources

Question 8

What did the Supreme Court rule in the case Near V. Minnesota?

Accepted Answer

A state could not punish a newspaper by forcing it to stop publication.

Question 9

What does the First Amendment give groups of people the right to do?

Accepted Answer

assemble peaceably

Question 10

Which of the following is a use of the freedom to petition?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

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