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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. Amendment 16 (1913) changes Article 1, Section 2, and declares that the government can collect taxes, regardless of a state's what?
(a) Durable goods produced.
(b) Location.
(c) Population.
(d) Territorial size.

2. Amendment 1 addresses which of the following five freedoms?
(a) Congress cannot prevent appointment of Supreme Court justices.
(b) Congress cannot prevent riotous assembly.
(c) Congress cannot prevent peaceful assembly.
(d) Congress cannot prevent or inhibit legally sanctioned elections.

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?
(a) Treason, violent felony, or breach of peace.
(b) Treason, violent felony, or breach of promise.
(c) Treason, felony, or breach of the peace.
(d) Murder, arson, or armed robbery.

4. To be a member of the House of Representatives for any state having more than two representatives, the individual must live in the district within the state he or she represents, except for which two states?
(a) Arizona, Utah.
(b) New Mexico, Nevada.
(c) North Dakota, Nevada.
(d) New Mexico, North Dakota.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Amendment 17 (1913) changes which original article?

2. Amendment 18, Section 3 (1919) provided the states a period of how long to ratify this amendment, after that time it could not have been adopted?

3. The President is charged with ensuring what?

4. Amendment 24 (1964) prohibits denial of the right to vote because of what?

5. To supply room and board means to what?

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