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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. Amendment 1 addresses which of the following five freedoms?
(a) Congress cannot prevent or inhibit legally sanctioned elections.
(b) Congress cannot prevent appointment of Supreme Court justices.
(c) Congress cannot prevent peaceful assembly.
(d) Congress cannot prevent riotous assembly.

2. Amendment 20, Section 1 (1933) stipulates the terms of senators and representatives end at noon on which dates of the year such terms end respectively?
(a) January 20, January 3.
(b) January 3, January 20.
(c) January 3 for both.
(d) January 20 for both,

3. All revenue bills must originate where?
(a) Joint caucus of both houses.
(b) Committee of members from both houses, Internal Revenue Service.
(c) House of Representatives.
(d) Senate.

4. Which amendment addresses Congress's inability to prohibit citizens from worshiping how and when they please?
(a) 5.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

5. Amendment 14, Section 1 (1868) stipulates anyone born in the U.S. and governed by it is what type of citizen?
(a) U.S. and country where he was born.
(b) U.S. and state in which he resides.
(c) Naturalized.
(d) U.S. and state in which he was born.

Short Answer Questions

1. Amendment 1 includes which freedom?

2. Amendment 21 does what?

3. What length of term do members of the Senate serve?

4. The government may pass laws regarding the ownership of certain weapons in the way in which they are used is addressed in which amendment?

5. Amendment 18 (1919) states that the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages is illegal beginning when?

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