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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does to speak or write in favor of mean?
(a) Advance.
(b) Advocate.
(c) Advantage.
(d) Address.

2. Amendment 1 contains how many freedoms?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

3. Which amendment addresses Congress's inability to prohibit citizens from worshiping how and when they please?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

4. Amendment 16 (1913) changes Article 1, Section 2, and declares that the government can collect taxes, regardless of a state's what?
(a) Durable goods produced.
(b) Location.
(c) Population.
(d) Territorial size.

5. Inheritance, corporations, laws concerning education, marriage and divorce all are under the jurisdiction of what government?
(a) County.
(b) Municipal.
(c) State.
(d) Federal.

6. What is the term for a sum of money put up by arrested individuals to ensure their return, so they may be released until the time of their trial?
(a) Bile.
(b) Braille.
(c) Bail.
(d) Bale.

7. The people may keep and bear arms for which two purposes?
(a) Having a well-trained militia, recreation.
(b) Hunting, having a well-trained militia.
(c) Their protection, hunting.
(d) Their protection, having a well-trained militia.

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

9. Amendment 24 (1964) prohibits denial of the right to vote because of what?
(a) Education level.
(b) Delinquent court fines.
(c) Delinquent taxes.
(d) Ability to read.

10. Prior to ratification of Amendment 19 (1920), who was the matter it addressed left up to?
(a) Provinces.
(b) Municipalities.
(c) Counties.
(d) States.

11. What are the first ten amendments to the Constitution called?
(a) Bill of Rights.
(b) Bill of Freedoms.
(c) Bill of Liberties.
(d) Bill of Acceptance.

12. Amendment 21 does what?
(a) Changes Article 3, Section 2.
(b) Changes Article I.
(c) Changes Article 2, Section 1.
(d) Repeals Amendment 18.

13. Amendment 14, Section 1 (1868) stipulates no state can make laws that do what to citizens of the U.S.?
(a) Take away, restrict any rights, privileges, protections except for juveniles.
(b) Take away, restrict any rights, privileges, protections except in war.
(c) Take away, restrict any rights, privileges, protections except in military.
(d) Take away, restrict any rights, privileges, protections.

14. Amendment 18 was repealed in what year, ending the period encompassing the 1920s known as Prohibition?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1932.

15. Amendment 14, Section 2 (1868) states that if any state takes away the right to vote from individuals meeting which of the following requirements, the number of representatives for that state may be reduced in proportion to those persons not allowed to vote?
(a) 21 years old, U.S. residents, not convicted.
(b) 21 years old, U.S. citizens, not convicted.
(c) 18 years old, U.S. citizens, not convicted.
(d) 18 years old, U.S. residents, not convicted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Amendment 20, Section 1 (1933) stipulates the terms of senators and representatives end at noon on which dates of the year such terms end respectively?

2. Congress was given the power to do away with Section 3 of Amendment 14, concerning certain supporters of the Confederacy, by a 2/3 vote, and did so in what year?

3. What does it stipulate in Amendment 9?

4. Amendment 11 (1798) changes Article 3, Section 2, and states that a civil or equity suit brought against a state by a citizen of another state or from a foreign country may be tried where?

5. Amendment 14, Section 1 (1868) stipulates no state may deny any person, under its government, what?

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