1.The lists used by jury commissioners to summon people for jury duty often underrepresent all of the following categories of people, EXCEPT:

A)minorities.

B)poor people.

C)elderly people.

D)people who recently turned 18.

2.The size of venire depends on all of the following, EXCEPT:

A)the trial location.

B)rulings of the presiding judge.

C)whether the defendant is indigent.

D)how much media attention the case received.

3.To make jury service less burdensome, the one day or one trial system is used in many

areas. It means that:

A) every trial lasts one day.

B) jurors are picked for each day of the trial separately.

C) jurors selected for jury duty participate in as many trials as can be held in one day.

D) for jurors who are selected, the jury duty will be over after the trial ends, and for thedismissed jurors, the jury duty is over.

4.Voir dire is all of the following, EXCEPT:

A) the final stage in the jury selection process.

B) a sort of pretrial interview held in open court.

C) a way to exclude attorneys from influencing the trial outcomes.

D) an opportunity for attorneys and the judge to question potential jurors.

5.Law does not set a limit to the number of _____ though they have to be approved by the

judge, and judges have _____.

A) peremptory challenges; to state their reasons for rejection

B) peremptory challenges; to state their bias

C) challenges for cause; limited patience

D) challenges for cause; unlimited patience

6.If juries systematically exclude _____, the legal system _____.

A) cognizable groups; would perform better

B) cognizable groups; loses its legitimacy

C) peremptory challenges; would perform better

D) peremptory challenges; loses its legitimacy

7.Even though the _____ is the best predictor of what kind of verdict the jury reaches in a case, different jurors evaluate and interpret the same evidence _____.

A) strength of evidence; similarly

B) strength of evidence; differently

C) composition of the jury; similarly

D) composition of the jury; differently