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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. 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.

2. Where are cases between a state and a foreign country, or citizens or subjects of a foreign country, tried?
(a) State court.
(b) Municipal court.
(c) Federal court.
(d) County court.

3. Amendment 14, Section 2 (1868) stipulates that representatives to Congress be elected in each state according to what?
(a) Tax income percentage.
(b) Territorial size.
(c) Population size.
(d) Durable goods production size.

4. Which is higher, U.S. laws or treaties?
(a) Neither, which is more recent applies.
(b) Neither, they are comparable.
(c) U.S. federal laws.
(d) U.S. federal treaties.

5. Which freedom is addressed in Amendment 1?
(a) Congress is prohibited from restricting freedom of the press.
(b) No one must supply room and board to soldiers except in peacetime.
(c) Citizens must only provide room, military provides food.
(d) No one must supply room and board to soldiers except in wartime.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one check on the Congress held by the Supreme Court?

2. The Constitution was ratified by what consent?

3. When Cullop states the U.S. has a "government of the people, by the people, for the people," whom is he quoting?

4. Which amendment addresses Congress's inability to prohibit citizens from worshiping how and when they please?

5. 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?

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