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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: The Constitution of the United States, Part VI: Know Your Q's and A's.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is one check on the Supreme Court held by the Congress?
(a) Senate may refuse to give consent to a Supreme Court appointment.
(b) Congress may refuse to give consent to a Supreme Court appointment.
(c) Congress may withhold consent to treaties approved by Supreme Court.
(d) May override Supreme Court decisions by 51% vote of both houses.
2. The federal government is based on the concept that it should benefit the majority, which means what?
(a) There invariably will be people in the minority who are unhappy.
(b) There invariably will be people in the majority who are unhappy.
(c) There invariably will be people in the minority who are happy.
(d) There invariably will be people in the minority who are indifferent.
3. What does Amendment 12 (1804) also address the importance of?
(a) Congressional vote.
(b) Free vote.
(c) Secret ballot.
(d) Electoral vote.
4. The return of a fugitive by one authority to another is the definition of what?
(a) Extradition.
(b) Explication.
(c) Extortion.
(d) Extrication.
5. Amendment 1 addresses which of the following five freedoms?
(a) Congress cannot prevent or inhibit legally sanctioned elections.
(b) Congress cannot prevent appointment of Supreme Court justices.
(c) Congress cannot prevent peaceful assembly.
(d) Congress cannot prevent riotous assembly.
Short Answer Questions
1. To set free best defines what term?
2. Which department heads are among some of those serving on the President's Cabinet?
3. How were Congress members originally chosen?
4. Articles within the Constitution are further divided into categories called Sections for what purpose?
5. The U.S. is a group of individual states that afford certain specific duties and responsibilities to which government?
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