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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. How did people eventually refer to this initial document?
(a) ACPU.
(b) Pledge of Allegiance.
(c) Constitution.
(d) Articles of Confederation.

2. Who was the 16th President of the United States?
(a) John Adams.
(b) Alexander Hamilton.
(c) James Madison.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

3. The federal government is based on the concept that it should benefit the majority, which means what?
(a) There invariably will be people in the minority who are indifferent.
(b) There invariably will be people in the minority who are unhappy.
(c) There invariably will be people in the minority who are happy.
(d) There invariably will be people in the majority who are unhappy.

4. The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was introduced in what year?
(a) 1783.
(b) 1781.
(c) 1777.
(d) 1779.

5. Attending the convention in Philadelphia for revision of the Articles of Confederation were delegates from all but which state?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) Rhode Island.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Part I: Introduction to the Constitution begin by defining?

2. The U.S. is a group of individual states that afford certain specific duties and responsibilities to which government?

3. Cullop asserts which term for American government is correct?

4. Some say the government of the U.S. is one in which the people are responsible for self-governing, or what Cullop calls what?

5. Cullop states the government in the U.S. is referred to by many different names, but by which two most frequently?

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