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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Ratification of the Constitution, Chapters 31-34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much of the Virginia Plan was accepted?
(a) Most of it.
(b) None of it.
(c) All of it.
(d) A few key provisions.

2. How extensive were the changes the delegates made to the first draft of the Constitution?
(a) The draft was almost entirely rewritten.
(b) Revisions separated the branches of government.
(c) Revisions gave the Congress veto power over presidential appointments.
(d) Not extensive at all.

3. What did opponents of the resolution that was ultimately adopted think would be the consequence of adopting the proposal?
(a) That the states would have to band together to oppose the government.
(b) That the states would lose tax income to the federal government.
(c) That the states would be eradicated.
(d) That states would work by region to set their own laws and standards.

4. What did William Paterson offer the convention?
(a) The New Jersey Plan.
(b) The Great Compromise.
(c) The Missouri Compromise.
(d) The Virginia Plan.

5. What does James Madison argue on the question of suffrage?
(a) He thought that universal suffrage should triumph.
(b) He thought that universal suffrage would ruin the government.
(c) He thought that suffrage restrictions were regrettable but necessary.
(d) He thought that suffrage restrictions were a step toward monarchy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What method of ratification did Oliver Ellsworth advocate?

2. What did Mr. Paterson argue about the New Jersey Plan?

3. What did Madison advocate concerning the election or appointment of the executive?

4. What did the New Jersey Plan allow the federal government to do?

5. Which party did James Wilson belong to?

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