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

2. What did Mr. Mason propose in his arguments of June 4?
(a) That there be two executives, like Roman consuls.
(b) That there be an executive for each region.
(c) That the executive be appointed by Congress.
(d) That the executive be chosen in popular elections.

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

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

5. What were Americans concluding by the 1780s?
(a) That mercantile colonialism had been a working model before the revolution.
(b) That representation could have been earned without warfare.
(c) That the federal executive was too weak.
(d) That there was too much power in the federal government.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did delegates argue for a small senate?

2. What did James Madison support?

3. Why did delegates argue that Senators should be elected in state legislatures?

4. What did delegates suggest would happen if state legislatures chose Representatives for the House?

5. What thoughts did Mr. Madison express on the topic of elections during debate at the convention?

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