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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: The Constitution of the United States, Part VI: Know Your Q's and A's.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Amendment 15, Section 1 (1870) stipulates the right of U.S. citizens to vote cannot be taken away for which of the following reasons?
(a) Race, color, previous servitude.
(b) Race, creed, previous servitude.
(c) Color, creed, previous servitude.
(d) Race, color, or sex.

2. Together the group in Philadelphia constructed the Constitution requiring a federal government comprised of which three branches?
(a) Democratic, Republican, and Whig.
(b) President, Senate, and House of Representatives.
(c) Democratic, Republican, and Independent.
(d) Executive, legislative, and judicial.

3. How old is the U.S. Constitution in comparison with others?
(a) Oldest written constitution in use in the western hemisphere.
(b) 3rd oldest written constitution in use anywhere in the world.
(c) Oldest written constitution in use in the northern hemisphere.
(d) Oldest written constitution in use anywhere in the world.

4. Giving a limited amount of power to the central government and allowing each state to keep the majority of laws and powers was what?
(a) The basis of the revised document.
(b) The basis of the initial document.
(c) The basis of a socialist document.
(d) The basis for a centralized government.

5. What type of democracy is that in which the people handle government matters on their own behalf?
(a) United.
(b) Indirect.
(c) Federation.
(d) Direct.

Short Answer Questions

1. Any powers not denied them by the Constitution, and that are not the exclusive powers of the U.S. government, are whose?

2. Where, in accordance with Amendment 23 (1961) and as Congress directs, may electors be appointed for President and Vice President as if it were a state?

3. Amendment 20, Section 3 (1933) stipulates if a President has not been elected, or if the President-elect cannot qualify for the office by the time the term begins, who acts as President until such time as a qualified President can be elected?

4. Amendment 18 (1919) states that the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages is illegal beginning when?

5. Article V addresses amending the Constitution in which two steps?

(see the answer key)

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