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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 did Alexander Hamilton want to protect the executive from?
(a) Popular sentiment.
(b) Foreign influence.
(c) Assassination.
(d) Corruption.

2. Who proposed that government officers not receive salaries?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) Alexander Hamilton.
(d) James Madison.

3. 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.

4. 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) Creating a check against popular democracy.
(c) Insulating the federal government from individuals in the states.
(d) Raising the Senate above popular opinion.

5. What kind of representation did James Madison advocate?
(a) Representation by state size.
(b) Representation by revenue.
(c) Representation by person.
(d) Representation by state.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many branches of government did Mr. Madison propose be elected?

2. What was the objection to constitutional monarchy at the constitutional convention?

3. What did Madison say the country needed, in his letter to George Washington?

4. What did Randolph argue at the convention?

5. What did Madison argue for in his letter to George Washington?

(see the answer key)

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