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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Madison stress in his letter to George Washington?
(a) The need for representation by population.
(b) The need for representation by state and region.
(c) The need for restraints on popular sentiment.
(d) The need for high taxes to pay for federal army and government.

2. What were the delegates' intentions when they argued for election of Senators from state legislatures?
(a) Insulating the federal government from individuals in the states.
(b) Creating a check against popular democracy.
(c) Improving upon the process by which the people were represented.
(d) Raising the Senate above popular opinion.

3. What were Americans concluding by the 1780s?
(a) That representation could have been earned without warfare.
(b) That the federal executive was too weak.
(c) That there was too much power in the federal government.
(d) That mercantile colonialism had been a working model before the revolution.

4. What did Alexander Hamilton propose in his speech?
(a) Regulation of slavery.
(b) A standing army.
(c) A Supreme Court.
(d) An executive-for-life.

5. What reason did Mr. Mason give for the view he presented at the convention?
(a) Democracy was dangerous for a country without precedents.
(b) Representation should be the one fully democratic part of government.
(c) The people could not be trusted to govern themselves.
(d) The populace needed power but they also needed to be checked.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which form of government includes direct voting by the people?

3. What subject were the delegates debating in Chapter 6?

4. What did Madison and Jefferson want to do about judges?

5. How would government service be seen if government officers did not receive salaries, in the opinion of the man who proposed this?

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