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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The creation of the Electoral College.
(d) A bicameral legislature.

2. What did Alexander Hamilton propose in his speech?
(a) A standing army.
(b) Regulation of slavery.
(c) An executive-for-life.
(d) A Supreme Court.

3. What deliberative body created a compromise between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?
(a) The Senate.
(b) The Supreme Court.
(c) A grand committee.
(d) The Congress.

4. What did Mr. Mason propose in his arguments of June 4?
(a) That there be an executive for each region.
(b) That the executive be chosen in popular elections.
(c) That there be two executives, like Roman consuls.
(d) That the executive be appointed by Congress.

5. What position did "Publius" advocate?
(a) Attacking the new Constitution.
(b) Arguing against ratification of the Constitution.
(c) Defending the new Constitution.
(d) Proposing an alternative to the Constitution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Madison stress in his letter to George Washington?

2. What was Mr. Wilson's feeling about the compromise?

3. What were the delegates' intentions when they argued for election of Senators from state legislatures?

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

5. What did delegates suggest would happen if state legislatures chose Representatives for the House?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Great Compromise?

2. What did delegates object to in the Virginia Plan?

3. What problems were Americans having with the Articles of Confederation?

4. Describe the delegates' reaction to the New Jersey Plan.

5. What did delegates discuss regarding the appointment of judges?

6. What were the delegates' positions on the question of Senatorial term limits?

7. Why did Benjamin Franklin believe that government officers should not receive salaries?

8. What was the benefit of the proposal to elect representatives in the state legislatures?

9. What were the views on either side of the question of electing representatives?

10. What was Alexander Hamilton's argument about the need for a central government?

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