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

2. What is the length of a term for a member of the House of Representatives?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 1 year.

3. Amendment 25, Section 2 (1967) stipulates if there is a vacancy in the office of Vice President, who fills the vacancy?
(a) Speaker of the House.
(b) President designates.
(c) Secretary of State.
(d) President nominates, Congress confirms.

4. What is involuntary servitude?
(a) Work done without payment of wages or room and board.
(b) Service performed under military draft.
(c) Work done against one's will.
(d) Service performed under draft for civil service.

5. Drafting the Constitution was a difficult task, and there had to be how many main compromises in order to arrive at a final decision?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. To supply room and board means to what?

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. Elections give all citizens the opportunity to make their voices known, and to choose the official that would do what?

4. What type of democracy is that in which the people handle government matters on their own behalf?

5. Amendment 17 (1913) changes which original article?

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