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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. Which state delegation split their vote on July second?
(a) New York.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Georgia.
2. What is the Society of the Cincinnati?
(a) A group of men who want to change the Articles of Confederation.
(b) A group of delegates who serve in the Continental Congress.
(c) A group of officers who serve in the Revolutionary War.
(d) A group of military men who want to maintain the federal government.
3. In Chapter 10, the delegates vote that senators are chosen by whom?
(a) Citizens in a popular vote.
(b) State legislatures.
(c) Members of Congress.
(d) The Chief Executive.
4. Who writes the Virginia Act approving a Federal Convention?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) James Madison.
(d) Robert Morris.
5. What convenience is just becoming fashionable at the time of the Convention?
(a) Toothbrushes.
(b) Boots.
(c) Plows.
(d) Buckles.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Guillaume Penn?
2. What question is considered at the first Saturday meeting of the quorum?
3. In Chapter Four, what issue does James Wilson see as the heart of the problem surrounding government?
4. What term do Americans use to describe the process of clearing the land of trees?
5. Which delegate is the oldest?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the terms of Hamilton's plan for a republican government?
2. What arguments do James Madison present in his rebuttal of the New Jersey plan?
3. What is the Committee of the Whole?
4. What does James Wilson mean by his statement that Federal liberty is to states what civil liberty is to individuals?
5. Why does the Convention remove the word "national" from the first Virginia Resolve?
6. In Chapter Five, which Resolves are postponed for later discussion?
7. Why does Madison believe popular ratification of the Constitution is essential?
8. What are considered to be the disadvantages to having a single executive?
9. What do the delegates to the Convention understand as the meaning of "democracy"?
10. What are Lansing's arguments in favor of the New Jersey Plan?
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