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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. By the events of Chapter 11, how is the balloting taking place?
(a) In smaller sub-committees.
(b) In the full Convention.
(c) Only in state caucuses.
(d) Only in the Committee of the Whole.

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

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

4. 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.

5. On May 30th, what amendment to the Virginia Resolves is proposed by Randolph?
(a) Change from the Convention to the Committee of the Whole.
(b) Change from a supreme power to a federal government.
(c) Change from federal government to a democracy.
(d) Change from a federal to a national government.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Madison consider "a clear principle of free government"?

2. What does Bowen consider the most striking feature of the New Jersey Plan?

3. Who is Edmund Randolph?

4. According to the Convention rules, how are questions to be decided?

5. In Chapter Seven, which delegate is identified as "not consulted" on the vote to grant the national legislature veto power over all laws they deem improper?

Short Essay Questions

1. What rules do Convention delegates agree upon?

2. 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?

3. What arguments do James Madison present in his rebuttal of the New Jersey plan?

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

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

6. Why is there a secrecy rule at the Convention?

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

8. Why is Washington concerned about the Society of the Cincinnati meeting in Philadelphia at the same time as the Convention?

9. What is New York City like in 1787?

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

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