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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one check on the President held by the Supreme Court?
(a) Controls all spending of money in U.S. government.
(b) May override President's veto by 2/3 vote.
(c) May bring suits or issue court orders against public officers.
(d) May refuse to give its consent to approve a Presidential election.

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

3. Cullop asserts which term for American government is correct?
(a) Democratic republic.
(b) Democratic confederation.
(c) Republican democracy.
(d) Independent republic.

4. The President is charged with ensuring what?
(a) Seeing that laws are enforced.
(b) Seeing that the Supreme Court enforces the laws.
(c) Seeing that Congress enforces the laws.
(d) Seeing that laws are proposed to Congress, signed by Supreme Court.

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

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

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

8. Elections give all citizens the opportunity to make their voices known, and to choose the official that would do what?
(a) Best represent their political party.
(b) Best represent their state.
(c) Best represent their hometown.
(d) Best represent their interests.

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

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

11. What is one check on the Congress held by the Supreme Court?
(a) May call special sessions of Congress.
(b) May veto bills of Congress.
(c) May declare laws Congress passes and President signs, unconstitutional.
(d) May veto bills of Congress.

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

13. The Congress separated into the House of Representatives and the Senate is the result of a dispute termed what?
(a) "The Great Dispute".
(b) "The Great Debate".
(c) "The Great Compromise".
(d) "The Great Conflict".

14. 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 Whig.
(c) President, Senate, and House of Representatives.
(d) Democratic, Republican, and Independent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Article I addresses the legislative branch of government and includes how many sections?

2. 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?

3. How old is the U.S. Constitution in comparison with others?

4. Powers denied the Congress are in which section of Act I?

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?

(see the answer keys)

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