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

2. What do the states that make up the U.S. constitute?
(a) A confederation.
(b) A federation.
(c) A symposium.
(d) A community.

3. "Death, as a punishment for a crime, is not considered cruel or unusual as long as " what?
(a) "Death, rape, or serious bodily harm isinvolved in the crime".
(b) "Treason, death, rape, or serious bodily harm is involved in the crime".
(c) "There is no long physical suffering involved".
(d) "Treason, death, or serious bodily harm is involved in the crime".

4. What is a court-martial?
(a) Military trial held under military law.
(b) Trial of elected federal officials held in the Supreme Court.
(c) Trial of civilian federal officials held under federal law.
(d) Trial of elected federal officials held under federal law.

5. Amendment 14, Section 4 (1868) stipulates the U.S. would pay all its lawful debts, but what could neither the U.S. nor any state pay for?
(a) .S. bounties earned in the Civil War.
(b) U.S. military pensions.
(c) U.S. debts incurred in the Civil War.
(d) Emancipated slaves.

Short Answer 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?

2. To supply room and board means to what?

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

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

5. The U.S. government is currently located where?

(see the answer key)

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