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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What motion does the Committee of the Whole approve before they adjourn on the last day of May?
(a) The motion that the President should be elected by popular vote.
(b) The motion that the national legislature should have three branches.
(c) The motion that the President should be elected for life.
(d) The motion that the national legislature should have two branches.

2. Which delegate writes and publishes Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British colonies?
(a) James Wilson.
(b) John Dickinson.
(c) Pierce Butler.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

3. Which delegate is credited with being the strongest influence on the creation of the 1787 Convention?
(a) John Adams.
(b) Rufus King.
(c) Patrick Henry.
(d) Alexander Hamilton.

4. What question is considered at the first Saturday meeting of the quorum?
(a) What type of government best suites America?
(b) What is the role of the executive in the new government?
(c) What representation is used for Congress?
(d) Who is president of the Convention?

5. Why is it difficult for Congress to obtain a quorum?
(a) Congress members do not have enough money to travel to meetings.
(b) Congress members have other jobs that prohibit their participation in Congress.
(c) Congress members disagree with the way the government is working after the Revolutionary War.
(d) Congress members prefer state interests to general government interests.

6. What is the first resolution of the New Jersey Plan?
(a) That a national government is established with a supreme legislative, judicial, and executive branches.
(b) That the Articles of Confederation are revised to make the federal Constitution adequate.
(c) That a single executive governs the country.
(d) That all states have equal representation in Congress.

7. During the events presented in Chapter 10, what issue concerns Mason?
(a) The extensive powers being granted to Congress.
(b) The use of the word "national".
(c) The lack of progress made by delegates.
(d) The payment of a stipend to members of Congress.

8. Which delegate is vehemently opposed to the clause in the Virginia Resolves that gives the national legislature authority to veto laws they judge improper?
(a) Elbridge Gerry.
(b) James Wilson.
(c) John Dickenson.
(d) Patrick Henry.

9. What kind of veto power does the Convention delegates finally grant to the executive?
(a) Veto power subject to overrule by 1/2 of Congress.
(b) Veto power subject to overrule by 2/3 of Congress.
(c) Absolute veto power.
(d) No veto power.

10. What is important about the reading of state credentials?
(a) The state credentials allow the delegates to introduce themselves, because they are all strangers.
(b) Reading the state credentials give everyone a chance to get used to the regional differences in speech and accent.
(c) The state credentials reveal signs of the way the states are thinking at the start of the discussion.
(d) Reading the state credentials make the actions legal under the Articles of Confederation.

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

12. Which delegate is born in Scotland and signs the Declaration of Independence?
(a) John Dickinson.
(b) James Wilson.
(c) Pierce Butler.
(d) John Rutledge.

13. What does late-eighteenth-century Americans eat for breakfast?
(a) Breads and cereals.
(b) Vegetable porridges.
(c) Squirrel ragout.
(d) "Relishes", including salt fish, ham, and bacon.

14. The delegates decide that congressmen are to be paid how?
(a) By a salary with annual raises based on longevity.
(b) By fixed, moderate stipend from the national treasury.
(c) By a fixed salary equivalent to two-thirds of a typical merchant salary.
(d) By a fixed, moderate stipend from individual state treasuries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Washington get his title of Commander in Chief?

2. Which American food does Brissot de Warville describe as food for the man who wants to be free?

3. On June 19th, which delegate begins the day by arguing against the New Jersey Plan?

4. How does Dr. Franklin arrive at the State House?

5. At the beginning of the Convention, Governor Morris reads a letter from whom?

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