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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What power was missing from the Articles?
(a) The power to amend the Articles.
(b) Executive power.
(c) The power to conduct war.
(d) The power to regulate foreign trade.

2. Where do delegates think that authority needs to originate in order to be legitimate?
(a) The people.
(b) The poor.
(c) The landowners.
(d) The merchants.

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

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

5. Which form of government includes a king whose powers are limited by a statement of the laws?
(a) Republic.
(b) Representative democracy.
(c) Empire.
(d) Constitutional monarchy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Mr. Gerry think the country's current troubles came from?

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

3. What was the objection to democracy at the constitutional convention?

4. What would happen if government officers did not receive salaries, in the opinion of the man who proposed this?

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

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