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

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

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

4. What did the Virginia Plan propose to do to the Articles?
(a) Extend their authority for another ten years.
(b) Fix their flaws.
(c) Ratify them in Virginia.
(d) Discard them.

5. What did James Madison support?
(a) Strong state governments.
(b) A strong federal government.
(c) A government of businesses.
(d) A system of checks and balances.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mr. Mason support at the convention?

2. Which form of government includes a representative government without hereditary privilege?

3. What was the Great Compromise?

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

5. What were Americans concluding by the 1780s?

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