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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 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.

2. What theory was flourishing in the 1770s in America?
(a) The theory of free trade and open markets.
(b) The theory of evolution.
(c) The theory of institutional design.
(d) The theory of intelligent design.

3. What would happen if government officers did not receive salaries, in the opinion of the man who proposed this?
(a) The government would consist solely of landed gentry.
(b) Legislators would have to have wealthy patrons.
(c) Men who needed money would be liable to be influenced by special interests.
(d) Men who lusted for power and money would not run for office.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the delegates debating in Chapter 3?

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

3. Where did Mr. Gerry think the country's current troubles came from?

4. Where on the political spectrum were Alexander Hamilton's opinions?

5. Why did Mr. Wilson prefer the New Jersey Plan?

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