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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 43-45, Appendices I and II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the original proposal for the residency requirement for citizenship?
(a) American birth.
(b) 7 years residence.
(c) 14 years residence.
(d) 2 years residence.

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

3. How many delegates signed the Constitution?
(a) All but thirteen.
(b) All of them.
(c) All but twenty-three.
(d) All but three.

4. What kind of political thought was flourishing in the 1770s in America?
(a) Radical political thought.
(b) Practical political thought.
(c) Conservative political thought.
(d) Aristocratic political thought.

5. What did Madison argue for in his letter to George Washington?
(a) The supremacy of national laws over states' laws.
(b) Restraints against a supreme national legislature.
(c) Independence of states to coin money.
(d) Independence of states to make laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which form of government includes a king whose powers are limited by a statement of the laws?

2. Which constituents did Dr. Johnson want to placate with the plan he advocated?

3. What would happen if government officers did not receive salaries, in the opinion of the man who proposed this?

4. What did "Brutus" argue regarding representation of the people in government?

5. What did the Pennsylvania dissenters recommend to the Constitutional Convention?

(see the answer key)

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