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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did James Madison argue concerning the question of whether the executive should be chosen by the legislature?
(a) He argued that the legislature should appoint the executive.
(b) He argued that the executive and the legislature should be kept separate.
(c) He argued that the legislature should elect the executive.
(d) He argued that the Supreme Court should appoint the executive.

2. What resolution was ultimately adopted?
(a) To allow the Supreme Court to decide which laws were supreme.
(b) To give state laws independence from the federal legislature.
(c) To prevent the federal government from overriding state laws.
(d) To give federal laws supremacy over state laws.

3. What did James Madison argue during the argument over representation by person or by state?
(a) Fairness argued for representation by state.
(b) The populace would not be served by state representatives.
(c) Popular sovereignty argued for representation by person.
(d) The ruling classes would benefit by representation by state.

4. What deliberative body created a compromise between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?
(a) The Senate.
(b) The Congress.
(c) A grand committee.
(d) The Supreme Court.

5. What was the Great Compromise?
(a) Appoint judges for life, but allow them to be impeached.
(b) A bicameral legislature.
(c) The creation of the Electoral College.
(d) Bring Texas into the union as a slave state, and Missouri as free.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the New Jersey Plan allow the federal government to do?

2. What compromise did this body propose, between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?

3. What did Mr. Mason propose in his arguments of June 4?

4. What did James Madison argue with relation to the New Jersey Plan?

5. What did Mr. Paterson argue about the New Jersey Plan?

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