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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: The Bill of Rights.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Amendment 1 addresses which of the following five freedoms?
(a) Congress cannot prevent peaceful assembly.
(b) Congress cannot prevent appointment of Supreme Court justices.
(c) Congress cannot prevent or inhibit legally sanctioned elections.
(d) Congress cannot prevent riotous assembly.

2. The people may keep and bear arms for which two purposes?
(a) Their protection, hunting.
(b) Their protection, having a well-trained militia.
(c) Hunting, having a well-trained militia.
(d) Having a well-trained militia, recreation.

3. Being tried again for a crime already found not guilty of is the definition of what?
(a) Jeopardy.
(b) Double indemnity.
(c) Double jeopardy.
(d) Indemnity.

4. 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) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

5. What is the term for a sum of money put up by arrested individuals to ensure their return, so they may be released until the time of their trial?
(a) Bail.
(b) Bale.
(c) Bile.
(d) Braille.

Short Answer Questions

1. Attending the convention in Philadelphia for revision of the Articles of Confederation were delegates from all but which state?

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

3. The government under the Articles of Confederation would be supervised by an assembly of people called a Congress, restricted in what fashion?

4. Whom was the final draft of the Constitution written by?

5. Which section of Article IV deals with admission of new states?

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