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

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

3. 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 democracy restricted the leaders.
(d) That the executive was too weak.

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

5. What were the delegates' intentions when they argued for election of Senators from state legislatures?
(a) Improving upon the process by which the people were represented.
(b) Insulating the federal government from individuals in the states.
(c) Creating a check against popular democracy.
(d) Raising the Senate above popular opinion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason did Mr. Mason give for the view he presented at the convention?

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

3. What did George Mason argue in the debate of June 4?

4. What did Madison and Jefferson want to do about judges?

5. What position did "Publius" advocate?

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