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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Twelve to twenty-three persons selected to decide if evidence against an accused person is sufficient for holding a trial, best defines which term?
(a) Evidence jury.
(b) Federal jury.
(c) Grand jury.
(d) Jury of prudence.

2. In Amendment 26 (1971) the legal age to vote was lowered to how many years?
(a) 19.
(b) 18.
(c) 20.
(d) 17.

3. One of the amendments included in the Bill of Rights is the freedom from unusually high what?
(a) Bail.
(b) There is no such freedom.
(c) Taxes.
(d) Fees.

4. 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.
(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 except for juveniles.

5. Where, in accordance with Amendment 23 (1961) and as Congress directs, may electors be appointed for President and Vice President as if it were a state?
(a) District of Columbia.
(b) Panama, Guam.
(c) Puerto Rico, Guam.
(d) Panama, Puerto Rico.

6. Which freedom is addressed in Amendment 1?
(a) Citizens must only provide room, military provides food.
(b) No one must supply room and board to soldiers except in wartime.
(c) Congress is prohibited from restricting freedom of the press.
(d) No one must supply room and board to soldiers except in peacetime.

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

8. No citizen shall be forced to supply room and board to soldiers except in the time of war, and even then it is only acceptable when what?
(a) Supreme Court approves.
(b) States pass a law to this effect.
(c) Congress passes a law to this effect.
(d) Congress has declared war by majority rule.

9. Amendment 1 addresses which of the following five freedoms?
(a) Congress cannot prevent appointment of Supreme Court justices.
(b) Congress cannot prevent or inhibit legally sanctioned elections.
(c) Congress cannot prevent peaceful assembly.
(d) Congress cannot prevent riotous assembly.

10. Amendment 20, Section 1 (1933) stipulates the terms of the President and the Vice President end at noon on which dates of the year such terms end respectively?
(a) January 3, January 20.
(b) January 20, January 3.
(c) January 20 for both.
(d) January 3 for both.

11. 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) Bail.
(c) Braille.
(d) Bale.

12. Amendment 22 (1951) declares that a President may not serve more than two terms, but did not apply to which President who was in office when it was proposed?
(a) Herbert Hoover.
(b) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(c) Harry S. Truman.
(d) Franklin D. Roosevelt.

13. According to Amendment 17 (1913), when a state has a Senate vacancy, who can make a temporary appointment?
(a) Governor of the state with permission of federal Congress.
(b) Governor of the state with permission of the state legislature.
(c) President, with permission of Senate.
(d) Governor of the state with permission of federal Senate.

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

15. Amendment 14, Section 1 (1868) stipulates no state can make laws that do what to citizens of the U.S.?
(a) Exceed any rights, privileges, protections.
(b) Impose stiffer penalties for state crimes than those for similar federal.
(c) Impose lesser penalties for state crimes than those for similar federal.
(d) Take away or restrict any rights, privileges, protections.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does it stipulate in Amendment 9?

2. Which amendment is often referred to as the right to have a fair and speedy trial?

3. Amendment 16 (1913) changes Article 1, Section 2, and declares that the government can collect taxes, regardless of a state's what?

4. Amendment 25, Section 2 (1967) stipulates if there is a vacancy in the office of Vice President, who fills the vacancy?

5. What does Amendment 12 (1804) also address the importance of?

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