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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Amendments Since the Bill of Rights.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The President is afforded the ability to set up a Cabinet of advisers including how many members?
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 13.
(d) 18.

2. Amendment 14, Section 1 (1868) stipulates no state can make laws that do what to citizens of the U.S.?
(a) Take away, restrict any rights, privileges, protections except in military.
(b) Take away, restrict any rights, privileges, protections except for juveniles.
(c) Take away, restrict any rights, privileges, protections.
(d) Take away, restrict any rights, privileges, protections except in war.

3. The warrant for a search requires what written in it?
(a) Who will be conducting the search.
(b) Justification for expecting specific items to be found.
(c) Exact method and items to be seized.
(d) When search is to be conducted.

4. Amendment 18 was repealed in what year, ending the period encompassing the 1920s known as Prohibition?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1932.

5. Congress was given the power to do away with Section 3 of Amendment 14, concerning certain supporters of the Confederacy, by a 2/3 vote, and did so in what year?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1898.
(d) 1894.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one check on the Congress held by the President?

2. No citizen shall be forced to supply room and board to soldiers except in the time of war, and even then it is only acceptable when what?

3. Section 1 of Article I outlines that Congress is comprised of how many bodies of delegates from each state?

4. A citizen may not be unlawfully searched nor seizure of his person or personal property made without a written court order obtained with what?

5. "Death, as a punishment for a crime, is not considered cruel or unusual as long as " what?

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