What are your thoughts on the 1963 Sample Literacy Test? Were they fair or unfair? Why was the test interesting? How does it relate to the concepts studied this week? (Concepts studied include: Affirmative Action, Racial Gerrymandering, Strict Scrutiny Separate But Equal, Middle-Level Scrutiny, Segregation).

Use specific questions or parts from the literacy test that you found interesting.

Questions asked on the Literacy Test:

1. In case of impeachment of the President, the officer who would preside at the trial is--

a. the Speaker of the House of Representatives

b. the Vice President

c. Chief Justice of the United States

2.Limits are placed on the right to vote by the--

a. National Government

b. courts

c. States

3.Money is coined by--

a. the National Government

b. the people

c. the States

4. Our Constitution has been changed--

a. by the Supreme Court

b. by the President

c. by the Congress and the people

5. The Constitution of the United States places the final authority in our Nation in the hands of

a. the national courts.

b. the States.

c. the people.

6.The name of our first President was

a. John Adams.

b. George Washington.

c. Alexander Hamilton.