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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What opinion bolstered Mr. Sherman's view about where election should take place?
(a) He believed that people could be trusted with self-governance.
(b) He believed that small states needed equal representation.
(c) He believed that the populace could be misled.
(d) He believed in a strong democracy.

2. Alexander Hamilton gave a speech that expressed what value?
(a) The value of low tariffs.
(b) The value of abolishing slavery.
(c) The value of independent states.
(d) The value of a strong federal government.

3. What did Mr. Mason propose in his arguments of June 4?
(a) That there be two executives, like Roman consuls.
(b) That there be an executive for each region.
(c) That the executive be chosen in popular elections.
(d) That the executive be appointed by Congress.

4. What were Americans concluding by the 1780s?
(a) That the federal executive was too weak.
(b) That mercantile colonialism had been a working model before the revolution.
(c) That representation could have been earned without warfare.
(d) That there was too much power in the federal government.

5. What was the objection to democracy at the constitutional convention?
(a) The threat of mob rule.
(b) The problems with devising a scheme of representation.
(c) The threat of concentrated executive power.
(d) The danger of foreign influence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the benefit of adopting the resolution that was ultimately adopted?

2. Where did Mr. Sherman say election should take place?

3. What kind of political thought was flourishing in the 1770s in America?

4. What did the Virginia Plan propose to do to the Articles?

5. What did Madison say the country needed, in his letter to George Washington?

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