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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: The Federal Convention of 1787, Chapter 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was cut out when the Constitutional Convention doted down part of the Virginia Plan?
(a) Congress's ability to regulate interstate trade.
(b) Congress's ability to vote down state laws.
(c) Congress's ability to impose state taxes.
(d) Congress's ability to declare war.

2. What was the objection to democracy at the constitutional convention?
(a) The problems with devising a scheme of representation.
(b) The danger of foreign influence.
(c) The threat of concentrated executive power.
(d) The threat of mob rule.

3. What were the delegates debating in Chapter 3?
(a) The election of the President.
(b) The appointment of judges.
(c) The election of Senators.
(d) The election of the House of Representatives.

4. Which form of government includes direct voting by the people?
(a) Constitutional monarchy.
(b) Republic.
(c) Oligarchy.
(d) Representative democracy.

5. What did Edmund Randolph present to the delegates?
(a) The New Jersey Plan.
(b) Articles of Confederation.
(c) The Virginia Plan.
(d) The Great Compromise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What thoughts did Mr. Wilson express at the convention?

2. How many branches of government did Mr. Madison propose be elected?

3. What opinion bolstered Mr. Sherman's view about where election should take place?

4. What position did "Publius" advocate?

5. What kind of political thought was flourishing in the 1770s in America?

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