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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. 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 give everyone a chance to get used to the regional differences in speech and accent.
(c) Reading the state credentials make the actions legal under the Articles of Confederation.
(d) The state credentials allow the delegates to introduce themselves, because they are all strangers.

2. How does Rutledge and Butler believe representation is determined?
(a) By the physical area of the state, including parts of the Western Territory.
(b) By the number of citizens living within each state.
(c) By the number of babies born each year.
(d) By the amount of taxes paid to the National treasury.

3. In Chapter 11, which delegate reminds the Convention that because the states are commercial, they continue to be engaged in European politics?
(a) Rufus King.
(b) Edmund Randolph.
(c) Gunning Bradford.
(d) Governor Morris.

4. In Chapter Four, what issue does James Wilson see as the heart of the problem surrounding government?
(a) Is it modeled after the British form of government?
(b) Does it represent all states equally?
(c) Is it be over men or over states?
(d) Is it be decided at the Convention?

5. Who is Robert Morris?
(a) A delegate from New Jersey.
(b) The richest man in Philadelphia.
(c) An assistant to Washington.
(d) The governor of Maryland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bedford declare the small states do if the large states dissolve the Confederation?

2. Which state comes prepared to oppose proportional representation?

3. What forms the basis of the Convention's procedure?

4. Which delegate chairs the committee that writes the Articles of Confederation?

5. What is Dr. Franklin's proposal for payment of the executive?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the Sherman Compromise important?

2. What is the difference between the European view of the forest and the American view of the forest?

3. Why are Patrick Henry and Sam Adams absent from the Convention?

4. Why is there a secrecy rule at the Convention?

5. What is the relationship between France and America during the period of the Convention?

6. What kind of reception does John Adams receive in England?

7. Why are some people uncomfortable with Benjamin Franklin's ideas about government?

8. What do the delegates do when the Convention is not in session?

9. Why does the Convention remove the word "national" from the first Virginia Resolve?

10. What is the Committee of the Whole?

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