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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Constitution stipulates senators must have been a U.S. citizen a minimum of 9 years, live in the state they represent, and what minimum age?
(a) 25.
(b) 18.
(c) 30.
(d) 21.

3. The Constitution could not be put into effect until it had been ratified by three fourths of the states, or how many of the original states?
(a) 8.
(b) 9.
(c) 10.
(d) 13.

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

5. What does Part I: Introduction to the Constitution begin by defining?
(a) Constitutional government.
(b) Articles of Confederation.
(c) Oath of Office.
(d) Declaration of Independence.

6. Article V addresses amending the Constitution in which two steps?
(a) Offered, endorsed.
(b) Ratified, signed.
(c) Proposed, accepted.
(d) Proposed, ratified.

7. Section 1 of Article I outlines that Congress is comprised of how many bodies of delegates from each state?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

8. Whom was the final draft of the Constitution written by?
(a) John Jay.
(b) Alexander Hamilton.
(c) Gouverneur Morris.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

9. The Constitution was ratified by what date?
(a) March 2, 1789.
(b) July 2, 1788.
(c) July 4, 1789.
(d) July 4, 1788.

10. The U.S. government is currently located where?
(a) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(b) New York, New York.
(c) Boston, Massachusetts.
(d) Washington, the District of Columbia.

11. Together the group in Philadelphia constructed the Constitution requiring a federal government comprised of which three branches?
(a) Executive, legislative, and judicial.
(b) Democratic, Republican, and Independent.
(c) Democratic, Republican, and Whig.
(d) President, Senate, and House of Representatives.

12. What is the Constitution a contract between?
(a) Federal government, state governments.
(b) Federal government, local governments.
(c) United States government, England.
(d) American people, federal government.

13. If force is necessary to see that a U.S. law is carried out, the Congress has the power to add what to the U.S. military forces?
(a) State police.
(b) Any police.
(c) Any police, firefighters.
(d) National Guard.

14. Under the Articles of Confederation, there would be what?
(a) A central power, executive, and judiciary.
(b) A central power and executive, but no judiciary.
(c) No central power, executive, or judiciary.
(d) A central power, but no executive or judiciary.

15. The author stipulates that how many different kinds of democracy exist?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the states that make up the U.S. constitute?

2. The first major document of the U.S. government was the Declaration of Independence which was signed in what year?

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

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

5. The Congress separated into the House of Representatives and the Senate is the result of a dispute termed what?

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