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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. To supply room and board means to what?
(a) Inquiry.
(b) Quarry.
(c) Quartet.
(d) Quarter.

2. Section 10 of Article I covers power that are denied to whom?
(a) States.
(b) Cities.
(c) Counties.
(d) Unincorporated territory.

3. What is one check on the Congress held by the President?
(a) May appoint Supreme Court justices for 10-year terms.
(b) May adjourn Congress at will.
(c) May withhold information from Congress.
(d) May veto bills of Congress with Supreme Court majority approval.

4. The government may pass laws regarding the ownership of certain weapons in the way in which they are used is addressed in which amendment?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does it stipulate in Amendment 9?

2. What is one check on the President held by the Supreme Court?

3. Amendment 1 contains how many freedoms?

4. Congress was given the power to do away with Section 3 of Amendment 14, concerning certain supporters of the Confederacy, by a 2/3 vote, and did so in what year?

5. What is the term for a sum of money put up by arrested individuals to ensure their return, so they may be released until the time of their trial?

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