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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: The Constitution Explained.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Elections give all citizens the opportunity to make their voices known, and to choose the official that would do what?
(a) Best represent their hometown.
(b) Best represent their political party.
(c) Best represent their interests.
(d) Best represent their state.

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

3. The Constitution stipulates senators must have been a U.S. citizen a minimum of 9 years, live in the state they represent, and what minimum age?
(a) 30.
(b) 25.
(c) 21.
(d) 18.

4. Cullop states the government in the U.S. is referred to by many different names, but by which two most frequently?
(a) United States government, federal government.
(b) United States government, national government.
(c) American government, federal government.
(d) Federal government, national government.

5. What form of government is defined as representative?
(a) Egalitarian.
(b) Totalitarian.
(c) Parliamentary.
(d) Republican.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did people eventually refer to this initial document?

2. On what date did the Constitution go into effect?

3. What is one check on the President held by the Congress?

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

5. Each house of Congress keeps a journal of what it does day to day, and each morning Congress is in session these are published where?

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