Legal Rhetoric Exam Review (2023)

Question 1

What word should not be abbreviated in a citation that is part of a textual sentence?

Accepted Answer

Consolidated

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT required formatting for block quotes?

Accepted Answer

Surrounding Quotation Marks

Question 3

Create a date () for a 2005 Hawaii Supreme Court case published in West’s Hawaii Reports.

Accepted Answer

(2005)

Question 4

Short cite to pages 3045 to 3049 of the Brown case, in volume 7 of United States Reports.

Accepted Answer

Brown, 7 U.S. at 3045-49.

Question 5

Create date () for a case from the Massachusetts Appeals Court in 2006 and published in the North Eastern Reporter

Accepted Answer

(Mass. App. Ct. 2006).

Question 6

What is the correct cite to Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure?

Accepted Answer

Fed. R. Civ. P. 12.

Question 7

Create a date () for a state statute that appears in the 1999 main volume and the 2004 supplement.

Accepted Answer

(1999 & Supp. 2004).

Question 8

Which of these verbs is generally NOT a proper beginning of an explanatory parenthetical?

Accepted Answer

(holds . . . )

Question 9

Order the following () in the correct order: explanatory; concurring opinion; citing another source.

Accepted Answer

Concurring opinion, citing another source, explanatory parenthetical

Question 10

What rule/table(s) must you use to abbreviate a case name when in a textual sentence?

Accepted Answer

10.2.1(c)

Question 11

Create date () for a 2005 Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals case in West's Hawaii Reports.

Accepted Answer

(Ct. App. 2005).

Question 12

Which signal should you use if the cited authority clearly supports a proposition contrary to the main proposition?

Accepted Answer

But see

Question 13

Which of these parentheticals correctly indicates a justice's non-majority opinion?

Accepted Answer

(Kennedy, J., concurring)

Question 14

What is the reporter abbreviation for the Federal Reporter, Second Series?

Accepted Answer

F.2d

Question 15

What is the Bluebook abbreviation for the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law?

Accepted Answer

Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol'y & L.

Question 16

In a practitioner document, write the number that is the answer to 25x2.

Accepted Answer

fifty

Question 17

The "Cite As" citation in the header of a printed case is always in correct Bluebook form.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 18

FINAL QUESTION: Which Bluebook rule governs Sections and Paragraphs?

Accepted Answer

3.3

Question 19

Which of the following statute short forms is correct?

Accepted Answer

§ 1983(b)-(e), (g).

Question 20

In a memo, what is the abbreviation for the preferred code in Arizona?

Accepted Answer

Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann.

Question 21

What signal would you use if the authority contains additional source material to support your proposition?

Accepted Answer

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