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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Bill of Rights Rejected..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is important about the reading of state credentials?
(a) The state credentials reveal signs of the way the states are thinking at the start of the discussion.
(b) Reading the state credentials make the actions legal under the Articles of Confederation.
(c) The state credentials allow the delegates to introduce themselves, because they are all strangers.
(d) Reading the state credentials give everyone a chance to get used to the regional differences in speech and accent.

2. What is the Society of the Cincinnati?
(a) A group of military men who want to maintain the federal government.
(b) A group of delegates who serve in the Continental Congress.
(c) A group of men who want to change the Articles of Confederation.
(d) A group of officers who serve in the Revolutionary War.

3. By August 30th, what date has been set for the final adjournment?
(a) No date has been set.
(b) August 31st.
(c) September 1st.
(d) September 31st.

4. Why is indigence a bad word for most delegates to the Convention?
(a) The delegates are fearful of becoming poor themselves.
(b) The delegates associate poverty with laziness.
(c) The delegates believe that the indigent population rebels against their decisions at any moment.
(d) The delegates are concerned that European countries realize the states need assistance in paying off their debts.

5. Who is elected secretary of the Convention?
(a) Major Jackson of South Carolina.
(b) James Madison of Virginia.
(c) Alexander Hamilton of New York.
(d) Robert Morris of Pennsylvania.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10, the delegates vote that senators are chosen by whom?

2. In Chapter Six, the Convention delegates decide the members of the National Senate are to be chosen by which procedure?

3. What is the ever-present danger delegates do not discuss?

4. Why are French noblemen amazed to find Revolutionary War officers working as innkeepers?

5. Which delegate elegantly rebuts Paterson's defense of the New Jersey plan?

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