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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 kind of political thought was flourishing in the 1770s in America?
(a) Conservative political thought.
(b) Radical political thought.
(c) Practical political thought.
(d) Aristocratic political thought.

2. What did all the delegates at the federal convention agree on?
(a) Government by consent.
(b) Laissez-faire economic policy.
(c) The rights of a king.
(d) The importance of a strong central government.

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

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

5. What did delegates suggest would happen if state legislatures chose Representatives for the House?
(a) The people would revolt.
(b) State and federal powers would balance.
(c) The states would acquire too much power.
(d) The government would not be legitimate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Delegates were trying to strike a balance in their decision about electing representatives for the House between what?

2. Where do delegates think that authority needs to originate in order to be legitimate?

3. What did Mr. Mason propose in his arguments of June 4?

4. Which bodies were the delegates considering as electors of Representatives in the House?

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

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