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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Ratification of the Constitution, Chapters 31-34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Alexander Hamilton want to protect the executive from?
(a) Corruption.
(b) Foreign influence.
(c) Assassination.
(d) Popular sentiment.

2. How much of the Virginia Plan was accepted?
(a) All of it.
(b) None of it.
(c) Most of it.
(d) A few key provisions.

3. What reason did Alexander Hamilton give for ratification of the Constitution?
(a) Good government needs to be representative.
(b) Good government needs to be deliberative.
(c) Good government needs to be energetic.
(d) Good government cannot compete with subordinate governments.

4. What limitation did delegates try to place on suffrage?
(a) Landowner restrictions.
(b) Race restrictions.
(c) National origin restrictions.
(d) Literacy restrictions.

5. What did opponents of the resolution that was ultimately adopted think would be the consequence of adopting the proposal?
(a) That states would work by region to set their own laws and standards.
(b) That the states would have to band together to oppose the government.
(c) That the states would be eradicated.
(d) That the states would lose tax income to the federal government.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were opponents of the resolution that was ultimately adopted afraid of?

2. What did James Wilson argue concerning the Constitution's provision for a standing army?

3. How did the New Jersey Plan resolve the question of the relationship of state laws to federal laws?

4. What was DeWitt arguing against in his essays?

5. What method of ratification did Oliver Ellsworth advocate?

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