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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What resolution was ultimately adopted?
(a) To allow the Supreme Court to decide which laws were supreme.
(b) To give state laws independence from the federal legislature.
(c) To give federal laws supremacy over state laws.
(d) To prevent the federal government from overriding state laws.

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

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

4. How many branches of government did Mr. Madison propose be elected?
(a) He proposed that all government positions should be elected.
(b) At least one.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

5. What did Dr. Johnson advocate during the debate over federal power?
(a) Reducing the size of the federal government.
(b) Instituting a Supreme Court.
(c) Centralizing power in the federal government.
(d) Preserving state power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason did delegates give for Senators being elected in state legislatures?

2. Which form of government includes a king whose powers are limited by a statement of the laws?

3. What did the New Jersey Plan allow the federal government to do?

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

5. What were Americans and Britons discussing a great deal during the 1770s?

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