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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. Which state delegation split their vote on July second?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Maryland.
(d) New York.
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. In 1787, which American city reminds travelers of London?
(a) Boston.
(b) Washington, D. C..
(c) New York City.
(d) Philadelphia.
4. What two types of documents do Convention delegates have to guide their discussion of states' rights?
(a) The state constitutions and the Declaration of Independence.
(b) The Articles of the Confederation and the Bill of Rights.
(c) The state constitutions and the Articles of the Confederation.
(d) The Articles of the Confederation and the Declaration of Independence.
5. Where does the Convention meet?
(a) The Congressional buildings.
(b) The White House.
(c) The Pennsylvania State House.
(d) Washington, D.C..
Short Answer Questions
1. What is important about the reading of state credentials?
2. How does Dr. Franklin arrive at the State House?
3. Which delegate is elected chairman of the Committee of the Whole?
4. What is the ever-present danger delegates do not discuss?
5. Which delegate is beloved by the French?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter Eight, why does Bowen include an anecdote from Pierce's Reliques?
2. What are Lansing's arguments in favor of the New Jersey Plan?
3. What do the delegates to the Convention understand as the meaning of "democracy"?
4. Why is the Sherman Compromise important?
5. What arguments do James Madison present in his rebuttal of the New Jersey plan?
6. What are the terms of Hamilton's plan for a republican government?
7. Under the Articles of Confederation, what are some of the weaknesses of government?
8. What is the difference between the European view of the forest and the American view of the forest?
9. What do the delegates do when the Convention is not in session?
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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