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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What subject were the delegates debating in Chapter 6?
(a) Whether the executive should be singular or plural.
(b) Who should be eligible to vote in elections.
(c) Whether government officers should receive pay.
(d) Whether the federal government should oversee state laws.

2. What were Americans concluding by the 1780s?
(a) That there was too much power in the federal government.
(b) That the federal executive was too weak.
(c) That representation could have been earned without warfare.
(d) That mercantile colonialism had been a working model before the revolution.

3. What were the delegates debating in Chapter 3?
(a) The election of the House of Representatives.
(b) The appointment of judges.
(c) The election of the President.
(d) The election of Senators.

4. Where should budget bills start, according to the compromise?
(a) In the executive.
(b) In the Senate.
(c) In the House of Representatives.
(d) In the Supreme Court.

5. How would government service be seen if government officers did not receive salaries, in the opinion of the man who proposed this?
(a) As an entitlement.
(b) As a privilege.
(c) As a stepping stone.
(d) As a duty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many branches of government did Mr. Madison propose be elected?

3. What did Gouverneur Morris argue concerning the question of whether the executive should be chosen by the legislature?

4. What happened to the motion not to give government officers salaries?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was an argument for electing Senators in state legislatures?

2. What was the Virginia Plan?

3. What paradox does James Madison articulate about the need for a strong federal government?

4. Where did the Federalist Papers come from?

5. What were the delegates' positions on the question of Senatorial term limits?

6. What did delegates discuss regarding the appointment of judges?

7. Name three or more delegates and describe their attitudes toward popular rule.

8. Why did James Madison argue against the New Jersey Plan?

9. Why was constitutional monarchy unpopular?

10. Describe George Mason's speech regarding the question of a single or plural executive.

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