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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To accuse and attempt to prove guilty means what?
(a) Prostrate.
(b) Proselyte.
(c) Execute.
(d) Prosecute.

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

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

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

5. 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) Same as to vote for President, Vice President.
(c) Age 21, U.S. citizen, citizen of state senators will serve, not convicted.
(d) Age 18, U.S. citizen, citizen of state senators will serve, not convicted.

6. 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?
(a) 1898.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1896.
(d) 1892.

7. Any powers not denied them by the Constitution, and that are not the exclusive powers of the U.S. government, are whose?
(a) Municipalities.
(b) Counties.
(c) States and people.
(d) Individuals.

8. 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 country where he was born.
(b) Naturalized.
(c) U.S. and state in which he was born.
(d) U.S. and state in which he resides.

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

10. 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) Bale.
(d) Bail.

11. 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) Congress has declared war by majority rule.
(b) States pass a law to this effect.
(c) Supreme Court approves.
(d) Congress passes a law to this effect.

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

13. Amendment 13, Section 1 (1865) outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude with what exception?
(a) Service performed under military draft in time of war.
(b) Service performed under military draft.
(c) Punishment for criminal convictions.
(d) Service performed under draft for civil service in time of emergency.

14. The arrest, confiscation, or taking one's belongings best describes what term?
(a) Seizure.
(b) Assessment.
(c) Analysis.
(d) Sneezers.

15. 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?
(a) January 20, January 3.
(b) January 3 for both.
(c) January 3, January 20.
(d) January 20 for both,

Short Answer Questions

1. Listing by number best defines which of the following terms?

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

3. Which is among the freedoms in Amendment 1?

4. 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?

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

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