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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. What is an assembly?
(a) An amount of money put up to ensure appearance at trial.
(b) To appear similar to someone or something else.
(c) An appearance in court.
(d) A gathering of people.

2. To supply room and board means to what?
(a) Quarry.
(b) Quarter.
(c) Inquiry.
(d) Quartet.

3. The return of a fugitive by one authority to another is the definition of what?
(a) Extortion.
(b) Extradition.
(c) Explication.
(d) Extrication.

4. Today the Constitution is separated into how many parts?
(a) 26.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 10.

5. What length of term do members of the Senate serve?
(a) 8 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 6 years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the length of a term for a member of the House of Representatives?

3. Amendment 18 was repealed in what year, ending the period encompassing the 1920s known as Prohibition?

4. A citizen may not be unlawfully searched nor seizure of his person or personal property made without a written court order obtained with what?

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

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