Constitution Practice Test
Part 1 – Multiple
1. The delegates met up in the city of __________ in the year _____.
a. Philadelphia, 1787
b. Philadelphia, 1878
c. Pennsylvania, 1788 d. Philadelphia, 1785
2. How many delegates attended?
a. 45
b. 54
c. 55
d. 44
3. The delegates were there to ________ the ____________.
a. revise, Constitution
b. delete, Articles of Conf.
c. revise, Articles of Conf.
d. revise, Bill of Rights
4. A plan of government can also be called a ____________.
a. domestic b. veto c. compromise d. constitution
5. What can the president do when he doesn’t want to approve an act of Congress?
a. sleep b. veto c. override d. eat
6. Why didn’t Rhode Island go to the Convention?
a. They were afraid that the smaller states would run out of power.
b. They ran out of horses to go to the Convention.
c. They wanted a Bill of Rights added.
d. They like the Articles of Conf., and they didn’t want to change it.
7. Who of the following didn’t go to the convention because he was in France?
a. George Bush b. John Adams c. Patrick Henry d. Thomas Jefferson
8. The first sentence of the Constitution, the ______, was mainly written by _________.
a. Bill of Rights, John Adams b. Preamble, Gouverneur Morris
b. Preamble, George Washington d. Preamble, Roger Sherman
9. The 3/5 Compromise made it so that ___ slaves would be only counted as ___ slaves.
a. 3,5 b. 55, 3 c. 5, 3 d. 3/5, 5
10. How many Articles exists today? (12-17-07)
a. 7 b. 10 c. 27 d. 28
11. How many out of the delegates were still left?
a. 43 b. 42 c. 53 d. 49
12. Out of that number, how many delegates signed the Constitution?
a. 36 b. 28 c. 45 d. 39
13. The Anti-Feds wanted power for the _______, and they wanted a _______ added to
the Constitution.
a. people, Bill of Rights b. people, amendment
c. states, Bill of Rights d. government, Bill of Rights
14. What does the word faction mean?
a. a mathematical term- 3/5, 2/3… b. a rule by the majority
c. your personal freedoms
d. larger groups taking over
Part 2 – Matching
*starred ones can be used twice
a) Benjamin Franklin
d) Roger Sherman*
g) James Madison*
j) interstate
b) George Washington
e) Edmund Randolph
h) Alexander Hamilton
k) William Patterson
c) Executive
f) republic
i) Legislative
15. ____ Presented the Virginia Plan.
16. ____ Signed all 3 major documents- Articles, Dec. of Ind., and Const.
17. ____ The north wanted _______ commerce.
18. ____ Made the Virginia Plan.
19. ____ Made the New Jersey Plan.
20. ____ The branch of government that makes laws.
21. ____ Was given credit for making the Great Compromise.
22. ____ Wrote the Bill of Rights.
23. ____ Presided at the Convention.
24. ____ The branch of government that enforces laws.
25. ____ Thought that the rich should rule.
26. ____ Great thinker and philosopher.
27. ____ A nation whose government is run by reps elected by the people.
Part 3- The Amendments
Which amendment….
28. States that soldiers cannot stay in your house whenever they want?
29. Mentions the “due process of law”?
30. Prohibits searching someone’s house without a permit?
31. Protects the rights of people in criminal cases?
32. Preserves the rights of a trial by jury in civil cases?
33. Forbids unusual or cruel punishment?
34. Abolished slavery?
35. Prohibits the manufacture, sale, and shipment of alcohol?
36. Prohibits unreasonably high bail?
37. States that people can’t testify against themselves in trial?
38. Says that people still have certain rights, even though the Constitution doesn’t list them?
39. Declares that the right to vote can’t be denied because of race?
40. Defined citizenship as the people who were born or naturalized in the U.S.?
41. Lowered the voting age to 18?
42. Gave people the right to have a public petition?
43. Gives the state militia the right to bear arms?
44. States that the government can’t seize property without paying a fair market price?
45. Declares that the powers that weren’t given to the federal government belong to the states?
46. Gives you the right of having a religion?
47. States that people can’t be tried twice for the same crime?
48. Repealed the prohibition amendment?
49. Gave women the right to vote?
50. States that the accused must be told the charges against him?
Answer Key
1.a.
2.c.
3. c.
4. d.
5. b.
6. a.
7. d.
8. b.
9. c.
10. c.
11. b.
12. d.
13. a.
14. d.
15. e.
16.d.
17. j.
18. g.
19. k.
20. i.
21. d.
22. g.
23. b.
24. c.
25. h.
26. a.
27. f.
28.III
29.V
30.IV
31.VI
32.VII
33.VIII
34.XIII
35.XVIII
36.XIII
37.V
38.IX
39.XV
40.XIV
41.XXVI
42.I
43.II
44.V
45.X
46.I
47.V
48.XXI
49.XIX
50.VI