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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 35-38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were supporters of the residency requirement for citizenship afraid of?
(a) They were afraid that the national interest would be subverted by foreigners.
(b) They were afraid that the states would be able to suppress immigrant votes.
(c) They were afraid that immigrants would send too much money back to their homelands.
(d) They were afraid that uneducated people would vote in large numbers.

2. How did Benjamin Franklin interpret the symbol on the President's chair?
(a) He saw it as a symbol of commerce.
(b) He saw it as a sun rising over the republic.
(c) He saw it as a tree withstanding the storms.
(d) He saw it as a predator subduing its enemies.

3. Why did delegates argue for a judicial veto power?
(a) To protect small states.
(b) To prevent bad executive judgment.
(c) To correct bad laws.
(d) To prevent corruption.

4. What power was missing from the Articles?
(a) The power to conduct war.
(b) Executive power.
(c) The power to amend the Articles.
(d) The power to regulate foreign trade.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What complaints were lodged against the proposal to elect Senators in state legislatures?

2. What limitation did delegates try to place on suffrage?

3. What did Mr. Sherman argue during the debate over the length of Senatorial term-lengths?

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

5. What did Virginia propose in its ratification process?

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