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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. Chapter Five describes which Virginia Resolve that is considered at the beginning of June?
(a) The ability for the President to veto measures.
(b) The method of representation within the legislature.
(c) The ability for Congress to tax the states.
(d) The institution of a national executive.

2. What does Bowen consider the most striking feature of the New Jersey Plan?
(a) The executive is removed by impeachment.
(b) Two branches of legislature.
(c) There is a single executive.
(d) Creation of a single legislative chamber where states vote equally, regardless of size or wealth.

3. Why is Thomas Jefferson absent from the Convention?
(a) He is in New York, meeting with Congress.
(b) He does not want to leave his farm in Virginia.
(c) He is in London arranging treaties and dealing with foreign governments.
(d) He is in Paris arranging treaties and dealing with foreign governments.

4. What is Dr. Franklin's proposal for payment of the executive?
(a) The executive is paid a percentage of his job before election.
(b) The executive is paid a fixed fee determined by state legislatures.
(c) The executive is paid a fixed fee determined by Congress.
(d) The executive is not paid.

5. Who is Washington's aide-de-camp during the Revolutionary War?
(a) King.
(b) Gerry.
(c) Madison.
(d) Hamilton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which state delegation split their vote on July second?

2. The delegates decide that congressmen are to be paid how?

3. What is Shay's Rebellion?

4. When they arrive, what is the most immediate problem for convention delegates?

5. What forms the basis of the Convention's procedure?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the relationship between France and America during the period of the Convention?

3. What is New York City like in 1787?

4. What characteristic and accomplishments make Rufus King the most impressive of the delegates from Massachusetts?

5. How does the report of the Annapolis Commission lead to the meeting of the Convention?

6. What are the "original principles" according to the delegates?

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

8. What are considered to be the disadvantages to having a single executive?

9. What is the Committee of the Whole?

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

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