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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Amendments Since the Bill of Rights.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The President is charged with ensuring what?
(a) Seeing that laws are enforced.
(b) Seeing that the Supreme Court enforces the laws.
(c) Seeing that Congress enforces the laws.
(d) Seeing that laws are proposed to Congress, signed by Supreme Court.

2. How many changes have there been since the Constitution was ratified?
(a) 18.
(b) 16.
(c) 10.
(d) 26.

3. The warrant for a search requires what written in it?
(a) Justification for expecting specific items to be found.
(b) Who will be conducting the search.
(c) Exact method and items to be seized.
(d) When search is to be conducted.

4. Any powers not denied them by the Constitution, and that are not the exclusive powers of the U.S. government, are whose?
(a) Individuals.
(b) States and people.
(c) Counties.
(d) Municipalities.

5. Under Amendment 14, Section 5 (1868) Congress was given the power to enforce this amendment in what manner?
(a) Congressional decree.
(b) Judicial decree.
(c) Appropriate legislation.
(d) Executive order.

Short Answer Questions

1. Amendment 14, Section 1 (1868) stipulates no state can make laws that do what to citizens of the U.S.?

2. "Room and board" means what?

3. What is known as congressional immunity protects all members from being arrested while attending a session of their house, or while going to or from it, except for what?

4. What does Amendment 15, Section 2 (1870) stipulate?

5. According to Amendment 19 (1920), the right of citizens to the U.S. to vote cannot be taken away or restricted because of a person's what?

(see the answer key)

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