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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a court order compelling a witness to appear in court the definition of?
(a) Warrant.
(b) Subpoena.
(c) Warranty.
(d) Proclamation.

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

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 Amendment 18 was repealed in what year, ending the period encompassing the 1920s known as Prohibition?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

4. Amendment 14, Section 1 (1868) stipulates no state may deny any person, under its government, what?
(a) Equal right to free education through 12th grade.
(b) Equal protection of the law.
(c) Equal right to practice their religion.
(d) Equal right to vote.

5. 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 20, January 3.
(b) January 3 for both.
(c) January 3, January 20.
(d) January 20 for both.

6. The government may pass laws regarding the ownership of certain weapons in the way in which they are used is addressed in which amendment?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

7. Which freedom can be found in Amendment 1?
(a) Congress cannot pass a law establishing a national religion.
(b) Citizens are free from military service except during national invasion.
(c) Citizens are free to attend the educational institution of their choice.
(d) Citizens are free to marry anyone of their choosing.

8. 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 Senate.
(b) Governor of the state with permission of the state legislature.
(c) Governor of the state with permission of federal Congress.
(d) President, with permission of Senate.

9. Amendment 14, Section 1 (1868) stipulates anyone born in the U.S. and governed by it is what type of citizen?
(a) U.S. and state in which he resides.
(b) U.S. and state in which he was born.
(c) U.S. and country where he was born.
(d) Naturalized.

10. Amendment 17 (1913) stipulates that to vote for the senators from his state, a person must meet what qualifications?
(a) Same as to vote for largest house in state legislature of residence.
(b) Age 21, U.S. citizen, citizen of state senators will serve, not convicted.
(c) Age 18, U.S. citizen, citizen of state senators will serve, not convicted.
(d) Same as to vote for President, Vice President.

11. What is involuntary servitude?
(a) Work done against one's will.
(b) Work done without payment of wages or room and board.
(c) Service performed under military draft.
(d) Service performed under draft for civil service.

12. To supply room and board means to what?
(a) Quarter.
(b) Inquiry.
(c) Quarry.
(d) Quartet.

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

14. What does it stipulate in Amendment 9?
(a) If other rights need to be added, the Constitution can be amended.
(b) Amendments require a 51% majority vote.
(c) All the rights the people have are listed in the Constitution.
(d) That to list the many rights the people take for granted would be impossible.

15. "Death, as a punishment for a crime, is not considered cruel or unusual as long as " what?
(a) "Death, rape, or serious bodily harm isinvolved in the crime".
(b) "There is no long physical suffering involved".
(c) "Treason, death, rape, or serious bodily harm is involved in the crime".
(d) "Treason, death, or serious bodily harm is involved in the crime".

Short Answer Questions

1. Amendment 17 (1913) specifies the Senate is composed of how many members?

2. What is another freedom in Amendment 1?

3. Amendment 18 (1919) states that the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages is illegal beginning when?

4. In Amendment 26 (1971) the legal age to vote was lowered to how many years?

5. Amendment 14, Section 1 (1868) stipulates no state can make laws that do what to citizens of the U.S.?

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