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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 20, Section 1 (1933) stipulates the terms of senators and representatives end at noon on which dates of the year such terms end respectively?
(a) January 3 for both.
(b) January 20, January 3.
(c) January 3, January 20.
(d) January 20 for both,

2. Amendment 1 includes which freedom?
(a) Citizens may seek redress via criminal lawsuits for damaging insults.
(b) Freedom from unreasonable seizure.
(c) Inability of Congress to pass a law prohibiting free exercise of religion.
(d) Freedom from unreasonable search.

3. What is a written court order allowing the arrest, search, and seizure of certain persons or certain property?
(a) Warranty.
(b) Warrant.
(c) Grant.
(d) Waiver.

4. The Congress separated into the House of Representatives and the Senate is the result of a dispute termed what?
(a) "The Great Dispute".
(b) "The Great Debate".
(c) "The Great Compromise".
(d) "The Great Conflict".

5. The main body of the Constitution is separated into how many blocks, known as Articles?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Where, in accordance with Amendment 23 (1961) and as Congress directs, may electors be appointed for President and Vice President as if it were a state?

4. Section 1 of Article I outlines that Congress is comprised of how many bodies of delegates from each state?

5. What is one check on the Supreme Court held by the Congress?

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