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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Guillaume Penn?
(a) A French statesman who lives in Pennsylvania.
(b) The founder of a French religious colony in Pennsylvania.
(c) The founder of the Pennsylvania Quakers, admired by the French.
(d) A member of the Pennsylvania Congress who favors trade with the French.

2. Which delegate opens the Convention's "main business"?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Edmund Randolph.
(c) James Madison.
(d) Alexander Hamilton.

3. What type of government does Virginia's George Wythe support?
(a) A weak national government.
(b) A strong national government.
(c) A monarchy.
(d) Continuation of the confederation.

4. What American diversion does Chevalier de Chastelleux experience while in Connecticut?
(a) Hunting wild turkey.
(b) Horse racing.
(c) Squirrel hunting.
(d) Clearing timber for farmland.

5. Which delegate elegantly rebuts Paterson's defense of the New Jersey plan?
(a) James Wilson.
(b) Charles Pinckney.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Alexander Hamilton.

6. Which issue tie up the Convention proceedings for days?
(a) How states are allowed to veto Congressional decisions.
(b) How states are to be represented in Congress.
(c) How states are to be governed.
(d) How states elect members of the Senate.

7. What is the outcome of the vote over the New Jersey plan?
(a) The states unanimously agree upon the New Jersey Plan.
(b) In a seven to three vote, the states chose the Virginia Plan.
(c) The states unanimously vote against the New Jersey Plan.
(d) In a seven to three vote, the states chose the New Jersey Plan.

8. What is the Society of the Cincinnati?
(a) A group of delegates who serve in the Continental Congress.
(b) A group of officers who serve in the Revolutionary War.
(c) A group of military men who want to maintain the federal government.
(d) A group of men who want to change the Articles of Confederation.

9. Who is elected secretary of the Convention?
(a) James Madison of Virginia.
(b) Robert Morris of Pennsylvania.
(c) Major Jackson of South Carolina.
(d) Alexander Hamilton of New York.

10. In Chapter Four, what issue does James Wilson see as the heart of the problem surrounding government?
(a) Is it be over men or over states?
(b) Does it represent all states equally?
(c) Is it be decided at the Convention?
(d) Is it modeled after the British form of government?

11. What do delegates see if they visit Carpenters' Hall?
(a) Models of mechanical instruments.
(b) Fossil bones.
(c) Newly published poems.
(d) Freshly caught fish.

12. Who is elected the president of the Convention?
(a) Morris.
(b) Hamilton.
(c) Washington.
(d) Madison.

13. In Chapter Eight, what startling statement is attributed to Franklin?
(a) That each state has one vote in the Senate.
(b) That suffrage in the House is according to the free population of a state.
(c) That he is not opposed to giving part of Pennsylvania to New Jersey or Delaware to make the states more equal in size.
(d) That blacks remain property in the South.

14. Which delegate from South Carolina claims to have a plan similar to that presented by Edmund Randolph?
(a) John Adams.
(b) James Madison.
(c) Charles Pinkney.
(d) Elbridge Gerry.

15. Which American food does Brissot de Warville describe as food for the man who wants to be free?
(a) Squirrel.
(b) The potato.
(c) Deer or venison.
(d) The apple.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who writes that Rhode Island's absence from the Convention is insignificant in the face of the stated unity of the delegates?

2. What convenience is just becoming fashionable at the time of the Convention?

3. How does Rutledge and Butler believe representation is determined?

4. According to the Convention rules, how many states make a quorum?

5. Which delegate is credited with being the strongest influence on the creation of the 1787 Convention?

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