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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Amendments Since the Bill of Rights.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Amendment 18 was repealed in what year, ending the period encompassing the 1920s known as Prohibition?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1931.
2. When Cullop states the U.S. has a "government of the people, by the people, for the people," whom is he quoting?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Alexander Hamilton.
(d) George Washington.
3. Congress was given the power to do away with Section 3 of Amendment 14, concerning certain supporters of the Confederacy, by a 2/3 vote, and did so in what year?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1898.
(d) 1892.
4. What is one check on the Supreme Court held by the Congress?
(a) Congress may withhold consent to treaties approved by Supreme Court.
(b) May override Supreme Court decisions by 51% vote of both houses.
(c) Senate may refuse to give consent to a Supreme Court appointment.
(d) Congress may refuse to give consent to a Supreme Court appointment.
5. No citizen shall be forced to supply room and board to soldiers except in the time of war, and even then it is only acceptable when what?
(a) States pass a law to this effect.
(b) Congress passes a law to this effect.
(c) Supreme Court approves.
(d) Congress has declared war by majority rule.
Short Answer Questions
1. Article III covers the judicial branch and includes how many sections?
2. Amendment 18, Section 3 (1919) provided the states a period of how long to ratify this amendment, after that time it could not have been adopted?
3. The author stipulates that how many different kinds of democracy exist?
4. To be a member of the House of Representatives for any state having more than two representatives, the individual must live in the district within the state he or she represents, except for which two states?
5. What is the Constitution a contract between?
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