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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 has the power to appoint ambassadors with the approval of what group?
(a) Senate.
(b) Supreme Court.
(c) House of Representatives.
(d) Congress.

2. To accuse and attempt to prove guilty means what?
(a) Prostrate.
(b) Prosecute.
(c) Execute.
(d) Proselyte.

3. Listing by number best defines which of the following terms?
(a) Emancipation.
(b) Enunciation.
(c) Enumeration.
(d) Enucleation.

4. One of the amendments included in the Bill of Rights is the freedom from unusually high what?
(a) There is no such freedom.
(b) Taxes.
(c) Fees.
(d) Bail.

5. Amendment 17 (1913) changes which original article?
(a) Article I.
(b) Article II.
(c) Article IV.
(d) Article III.

Short Answer Questions

1. Amendment 13, Section 2 (1865) stipulates Congress has the power to enforce this article by what means?

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

3. According to Amendment 17 (1913), when a state has a Senate vacancy, who can make a temporary appointment?

4. Common law refers to which term?

5. Amendment 14, Section 2 (1868) stipulates that representatives to Congress be elected in each state according to what?

(see the answer key)

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