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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Introduction to the Constitution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If a person's preferred candidate is not elected, there will be another election in which that candidate has what option?
(a) Try only once more for election by a majority vote.
(b) Request a vote ballot recount be taken.
(c) Try again, but only for a different position.
(d) Try again for election by a majority vote.

2. The author stipulates that how many different kinds of democracy exist?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

3. On what date did the Constitution go into effect?
(a) March 4, 1788.
(b) July 4, 1789.
(c) July 4, 1788.
(d) March 4, 1789.

4. What type of democracy is one in which the people elect officials in order to represent them in all aspects of government?
(a) United.
(b) Federation.
(c) Indirect.
(d) Direct.

5. The U.S. is a group of individual states that afford certain specific duties and responsibilities to which government?
(a) United.
(b) State.
(c) Central.
(d) Independent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some say the American government is one in which elected officials act on behalf of the people, or what Cullop says is the definition of what?

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

3. What do the states that make up the U.S. constitute?

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?

5. The first major document of the U.S. government was the Declaration of Independence which was signed in what year?

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