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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Article III covers the judicial branch and includes how many sections?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.
2. Elections give all citizens the opportunity to make their voices known, and to choose the official that would do what?
(a) Best represent their state.
(b) Best represent their political party.
(c) Best represent their hometown.
(d) Best represent their interests.
3. Which section of Article IV deals with admission of new states?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.
4. The Constitution stipulates senators must have been a U.S. citizen a minimum of 9 years, live in the state they represent, and what minimum age?
(a) 30.
(b) 21.
(c) 18.
(d) 25.
5. Article II addresses the executive branch and includes how many sections?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many changes have there been since the Constitution was ratified?
2. When Cullop states the U.S. has a "government of the people, by the people, for the people," whom is he quoting?
3. What length of term do members of the Senate serve?
4. The U.S. is a group of individual states that afford certain specific duties and responsibilities to which government?
5. Section 1 of Article I outlines that Congress is comprised of how many bodies of delegates from each state?
Short Essay Questions
1. What right is provided in Amendment 2?
2. How is the main body of the Constitution of the U.S. divided?
3. What are some provisions that Article II stipulates concerning the President's Cabinet?
4. What is the branch of government that the authors of the Constitution detail in Article III?
5. Over what types of cases do federal courts have jurisdiction?
6. What does Amendment 26 accomplish?
7. What does Article VII specify?
8. Do Americans live in a democracy or a republic?
9. What does Amendment 9 arrange for?
10. What punishment may an official suffer subsequent to impeachment?
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