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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. Which amendment is often referred to as the right to have a fair and speedy trial?
(a) 7.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

2. Which freedom is included in Amendment 1?
(a) Right to bear arms.
(b) Freedom from unlawful search, seizure.
(c) No citizen may advocate overthrowing the government by war.
(d) No citizen may advocate overthrowing the government.

3. Whom was the final draft of the Constitution written by?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Alexander Hamilton.
(c) Gouverneur Morris.
(d) John Jay.

4. All revenue bills must originate where?
(a) House of Representatives.
(b) Senate.
(c) Committee of members from both houses, Internal Revenue Service.
(d) Joint caucus of both houses.

5. Amendment 25, Section 2 (1967) stipulates if there is a vacancy in the office of Vice President, who fills the vacancy?
(a) Speaker of the House.
(b) President designates.
(c) President nominates, Congress confirms.
(d) Secretary of State.

Short Answer Questions

1. The President is afforded the ability to set up a Cabinet of advisers including how many members?

2. Section 1 of Article I outlines that Congress is comprised of how many bodies of delegates from each state?

3. Amendment 20, Section 1 (1933) stipulates the terms of the President and the Vice President end at noon on which dates of the year such terms end respectively?

4. What does to speak or write in favor of mean?

5. 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?

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