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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 29-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would happen if government officers did not receive salaries, in the opinion of the man who proposed this?
(a) Men who lusted for power and money would not run for office.
(b) Legislators would have to have wealthy patrons.
(c) The government would consist solely of landed gentry.
(d) Men who needed money would be liable to be influenced by special interests.

2. What did all the delegates at the federal convention agree on?
(a) The importance of a strong central government.
(b) The rights of a king.
(c) Laissez-faire economic policy.
(d) Government by consent.

3. What was the objection to democracy at the constitutional convention?
(a) The problems with devising a scheme of representation.
(b) The danger of foreign influence.
(c) The threat of concentrated executive power.
(d) The threat of mob rule.

4. What fear kept the delegates from approving the Constitution draft and going home?
(a) Fear that the federal government has too much power.
(b) Fear that the states are conspiring against the federal government.
(c) Fear that Britain will ally with Spain against America.
(d) Fear that slavery will divide the nation.

5. What did Benjamin Franklin say about supporters of the residency requirement for citizenship?
(a) He said that delegates were exaggerating the threat of European immigration.
(b) He said that delegates were cutting off sources of new talent by limiting immigration.
(c) He said that delegates were understating the ease with which people assimilate into American culture.
(d) He said that delegates were opening the floodgates to a tide of poor workers by opening restrictions on immigration.

Short Answer Questions

1. Delegates were trying to strike a balance in their decision about electing representatives for the House between what?

2. What does James Madison argue on the question of suffrage?

3. What method of ratification did Oliver Ellsworth advocate?

4. What did delegates debate on June 6?

5. What did James Madison argue during the argument over representation by person or by state?

(see the answer key)

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