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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Article III covers the judicial branch and includes how many sections?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

2. Article II addresses the executive branch and includes how many sections?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

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

4. What form of government is defined as representative?
(a) Parliamentary.
(b) Totalitarian.
(c) Republican.
(d) Egalitarian.

5. Some say the American government is one in which elected officials act on behalf of the people, or what Cullop says is the definition of what?
(a) Independence.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Republic.
(d) Confederation.

6. What is one check on the Congress held by the President?
(a) May veto bills of Congress with Supreme Court majority approval.
(b) May adjourn Congress at will.
(c) May appoint Supreme Court justices for 10-year terms.
(d) May withhold information from Congress.

7. All revenue bills must originate where?
(a) Committee of members from both houses, Internal Revenue Service.
(b) Joint caucus of both houses.
(c) Senate.
(d) House of Representatives.

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

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

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

11. Section 10 of Article I covers power that are denied to whom?
(a) Counties.
(b) Unincorporated territory.
(c) Cities.
(d) States.

12. How did people eventually refer to this initial document?
(a) Pledge of Allegiance.
(b) Articles of Confederation.
(c) ACPU.
(d) Constitution.

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

14. The President has the power to appoint ambassadors with the approval of what group?
(a) Senate.
(b) Supreme Court.
(c) House of Representatives.
(d) Congress.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is known as congressional immunity protects all members from being arrested while attending a session of their house, or while going to or from it, except for what?

2. How many changes have there been since the Constitution was ratified?

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

4. The author stipulates that how many different kinds of democracy exist?

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

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