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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Naturalized.
(d) U.S. and country where he was born.

3. Amendment 18 (1919) states that the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages is illegal beginning when?
(a) Immediately upon ratification of this amendment.
(b) 90 days after the ratification of this amendment.
(c) 30 days after the ratification of this amendment.
(d) 1 year after the ratification of this amendment.

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

5. What is an assembly?
(a) A gathering of people.
(b) An amount of money put up to ensure appearance at trial.
(c) To appear similar to someone or something else.
(d) An appearance in court.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Amendment 14, Section 2 (1868) stipulates that representatives to Congress be elected in each state according to what?

3. Which freedom is included in Amendment 1?

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

5. Amendment 18 was repealed in what year, ending the period encompassing the 1920s known as Prohibition?

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