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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Rutledge and Butler believe representation is determined?
(a) By the amount of taxes paid to the National treasury.
(b) By the number of citizens living within each state.
(c) By the physical area of the state, including parts of the Western Territory.
(d) By the number of babies born each year.

2. On June 19th, which delegate begins the day by arguing against the New Jersey Plan?
(a) Alexander Hamilton.
(b) James Madison.
(c) Edmund Randolph.
(d) Rufus King.

3. What question is considered at the first Saturday meeting of the quorum?
(a) What type of government best suites America?
(b) Who is president of the Convention?
(c) What is the role of the executive in the new government?
(d) What representation is used for Congress?

4. What metaphor does John Dickinson use to describe his view of American government?
(a) A machine, with the parts representing the legislative body.
(b) A solar system with the sun representing the central government.
(c) A farm, with the farmer representing the central government.
(d) A family, with the father representing the chief executive.

5. On May 30th, what amendment to the Virginia Resolves is proposed by Randolph?
(a) Change from federal government to a democracy.
(b) Change from a federal to a national government.
(c) Change from a supreme power to a federal government.
(d) Change from the Convention to the Committee of the Whole.

6. Why is it difficult for Congress to obtain a quorum?
(a) Congress members do not have enough money to travel to meetings.
(b) Congress members prefer state interests to general government interests.
(c) Congress members disagree with the way the government is working after the Revolutionary War.
(d) Congress members have other jobs that prohibit their participation in Congress.

7. The delegates decide that congressmen are to be paid how?
(a) By a fixed, moderate stipend from individual state treasuries.
(b) By a salary with annual raises based on longevity.
(c) By fixed, moderate stipend from the national treasury.
(d) By a fixed salary equivalent to two-thirds of a typical merchant salary.

8. What sound is prevalent in Philadelphia during the Convention?
(a) The clang of the printing press.
(b) The hissing of steam engines.
(c) The ringing of bells.
(d) Preachers preaching.

9. What do delegates see if they visit Carpenters' Hall?
(a) Models of mechanical instruments.
(b) Fossil bones.
(c) Freshly caught fish.
(d) Newly published poems.

10. By the events of Chapter 11, how is the balloting taking place?
(a) Only in state caucuses.
(b) Only in the Committee of the Whole.
(c) In the full Convention.
(d) In smaller sub-committees.

11. In 1787, which American City still shows the effects of the Revolutionary War?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Trenton, New Jersey.
(c) Boston.
(d) New York City.

12. When they arrive, what is the most immediate problem for convention delegates?
(a) Electing a President.
(b) Personal funding, because city life is expensive.
(c) Earning re-election in their home districts.
(d) Finding a place to stay, because Philadelphia is very crowded.

13. Which late-arriving delegate is also governor of New Jersey?
(a) William Livingston.
(b) Charles Pinckney.
(c) Elbridge Gerry.
(d) James Wilson.

14. Why does Dr. Franklin argue for a plural executive?
(a) He wants to share the position with George Washington.
(b) He believes a plural executive better reflects the interest of all the states.
(c) He believes a single executive becomes ill and unable to conduct public affairs.
(d) He believes a single executive inflames the British.

15. In Chapter Eight, what startling statement is attributed to Franklin?
(a) That suffrage in the House is according to the free population of a state.
(b) That each state has one vote in the Senate.
(c) That blacks remain property in the South.
(d) That he is not opposed to giving part of Pennsylvania to New Jersey or Delaware to make the states more equal in size.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Seven, which delegate is identified as "not consulted" on the vote to grant the national legislature veto power over all laws they deem improper?

2. In Chapter 10, which delegate makes a long speech about the lack of necessity for a Congress with two branches?

3. Who is Robert Morris?

4. Who is elected the president of the Convention?

5. What is the first resolution of the New Jersey Plan?

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