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

2. Where did Mr. Gerry think the country's current troubles came from?
(a) Too little representation in government.
(b) Too little religion.
(c) Too much democracy.
(d) Too much foreign influence.

3. What was the dominant fear about the executive?
(a) The power to regulate trade.
(b) The power to impose taxes.
(c) The power to go to war.
(d) The power to appoint judges.

4. What complaints were lodged against the proposal to elect Senators in state legislatures?
(a) It would dissipate federal power among the states.
(b) It would give too much power to large states.
(c) It would over-represent the small states.
(d) It would create a plutocracy.

5. What did George Mason say he feared, in his argument on June 4?
(a) That government will degenerate into a tool of businesses.
(b) That government will not have enough funding.
(c) That government will degenerate into monarchy.
(d) That government will degenerate into mob rule.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was cut out when the Constitutional Convention doted down part of the Virginia Plan?

2. What did the Virginia Plan propose to do to the Articles?

3. What did Mr. Mason propose in his arguments of June 4?

4. Who wrote the introduction to this edition of "The Anti-Federalist Papers"?

5. What did Alexander Hamilton propose in his speech?

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