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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 35-38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the New Jersey Plan resolve the question of the relationship of state laws to federal laws?
(a) State laws could still take precedence.
(b) It gave the states priority in matters of trade, but the federal government priority in military matters.
(c) Congressional laws were still the law of the land.
(d) The Supreme Court would decide on a state-by-state basis which laws took precedence.

2. What did James Madison argue with relation to the New Jersey Plan?
(a) It will not protect small states from bigger states.
(b) It cannot settle arguments between the states.
(c) It will give too much power to small states.
(d) It cannot support itself with tax revenue.

3. What was the Great Compromise?
(a) Bring Texas into the union as a slave state, and Missouri as free.
(b) A bicameral legislature.
(c) Appoint judges for life, but allow them to be impeached.
(d) The creation of the Electoral College.

4. What did Madison and Jefferson feel about Virginia?
(a) That the taxation rates were too low.
(b) That the executive was too weak.
(c) That democracy restricted the leaders.
(d) That international trade would solve its budget problems.

5. What did George Mason argue in the debate of June 4?
(a) He argued against a unified executive.
(b) He argued for a unified executive.
(c) He argued for an elected executive.
(d) He argued for an appointed executive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What compromise did this body propose, between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?

2. What did Madison argue for in his letter to George Washington?

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

4. How did the South want the Constitution to regulate trade?

5. What limitation did delegates try to place on suffrage?

(see the answer key)

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