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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Men who needed money would be liable to be influenced by special interests.
(c) Legislators would have to have wealthy patrons.
(d) Men who lusted for power and money would not run for office.

2. What were the delegates debating in Chapter 3?
(a) The election of the House of Representatives.
(b) The appointment of judges.
(c) The election of Senators.
(d) The election of the President.

3. What did William Paterson offer the convention?
(a) The Great Compromise.
(b) The Missouri Compromise.
(c) The New Jersey Plan.
(d) The Virginia Plan.

4. What did Mr. Sherman argue concerning the question of whether the executive should be chosen by the legislature?
(a) He argued that the executive should be elected by the people.
(b) He argued that the executive should be appointed by the Supreme Court.
(c) He argued that the executive should be elected by the Congress.
(d) He argued that the executive should be appointed by the Congress.

5. What did delegates debate on June 6?
(a) How to limit the executive's power.
(b) How to elect members of the House.
(c) How to appoint judges.
(d) How to declare war.

6. 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.

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

8. What complaints were lodged against the proposal to elect Senators in state legislatures?
(a) It would over-represent the small states.
(b) It would give too much power to large states.
(c) It would create a plutocracy.
(d) It would dissipate federal power among the states.

9. What did James Madison argue with relation to the New Jersey Plan?
(a) It cannot settle arguments between the states.
(b) It cannot support itself with tax revenue.
(c) It will not protect small states from bigger states.
(d) It will give too much power to small states.

10. How would government service be seen if government officers did not receive salaries, in the opinion of the man who proposed this?
(a) As a stepping stone.
(b) As a privilege.
(c) As an entitlement.
(d) As a duty.

11. What compromise did this body propose, between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?
(a) State representation in the upper house, and representation by person in the lower house.
(b) Missouri entered the union as a free state, and Texas as a slave state.
(c) Supreme Court Judges would be appointed by the executive, but the Congress could override the appointment.
(d) The government would maintain a standing army, but not a big one.

12. Where did Mr. Gerry think the country's current troubles came from?
(a) Too little representation in government.
(b) Too much democracy.
(c) Too much foreign influence.
(d) Too little religion.

13. 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 prevent the federal government from overriding state laws.
(d) To give federal laws supremacy over state laws.

14. How much of the Virginia Plan was accepted?
(a) All of it.
(b) Most of it.
(c) None of it.
(d) A few key provisions.

15. What reason did delegates give for Senators being elected in state legislatures?
(a) They would already know the laws.
(b) They would have the contacts they needed within the state.
(c) They would therefore be essentially promoted from within.
(d) They would therefore be men of character.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did George Mason say he feared, in his argument on June 4?

2. Why did many delegates support one resolution to this question?

3. What were opponents of the resolution that was ultimately adopted afraid of?

4. What subject were the delegates debating in Chapter 6?

5. Delegates were trying to strike a balance in their decision about electing representatives for the House between what?

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