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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. On June 19th, which delegate begins the day by arguing against the New Jersey Plan?
(a) Edmund Randolph.
(b) James Madison.
(c) Alexander Hamilton.
(d) Rufus King.

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

3. According to the Convention rules, how are questions to be decided?
(a) By a majority vote by delegates.
(b) By a unanimous vote of the delegates.
(c) By a vote of two-thirds of the delegates.
(d) By secret ballot.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Four, what issue does James Wilson see as the heart of the problem surrounding government?

2. Which delegate opens the Convention's "main business"?

3. Why is indigence a bad word for most delegates to the Convention?

4. What does Madison consider to be the usefulness of the Senate?

5. What is the outcome of the vote over the New Jersey plan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does General Washington write about in his letters to people back home in Virginia?

2. Why does Washington call sovereignty a "monster"?

3. Why is there an argument over the issue of a single executive?

4. What do the delegates see as the difference between a federal and a national government?

5. What evidence does Bowen provide to show that the Convention delegates do not intend to reform society, but to create a government for society as it existed?

6. What do the delegates to the Convention understand as the meaning of "democracy"?

7. What is the Committee of the Whole?

8. Why are some people uncomfortable with Benjamin Franklin's ideas about government?

9. What does the Virginia Resolves propose?

10. What does James Wilson mean by his statement that Federal liberty is to states what civil liberty is to individuals?

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