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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country did America look to for guidance on how to create their new republic?
(a) Burma.
(b) China.
(c) Scotland.
(d) None - the American revolution was the first.

2. What did John Adams see as the paradox facing the new republic?
(a) Legislating for 20 or 30 states, when all of the known legislative history had been for just one state.
(b) The new title of the republic versus its goals.
(c) The needs of the many outweigh the needs of a few.
(d) Tories versus Whigs.

3. What does the author say was a direct result of the new republic's decision to delay the slavery question in the 1780's?
(a) American Civil War.
(b) War of 1812.
(c) World War I.
(d) Vietnam War.

4. What is considered to be the main asset the new republic possessed?
(a) Good intentions.
(b) Gold mine in Pennsylvania.
(c) British stocks and bonds.
(d) Vast continent of North America, with all its resources.

5. Where, according to the Constitution, does sovreignity in the United States lie?
(a) At Fort Knox.
(b) With the people.
(c) With the President.
(d) With the states.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country is the oldest enduring republic in world history?

2. In its most simple terms, how did the Constitutional Convention formulate its documents?

3. Where was the Constitutional Convention held?

4. What does the author consider the years of 1787-1788 for America?

5. What term has changed in meaning from an inferior being to one of respect and might in the world?

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