Amendments Practice Test

This amendment says, “you don't have to let soldiers live in your house, except if there is a war, and even then only if Congress has passed a law about it.”

• A. 1st
• B. 2nd
• C. 3rd
• D.  4th 

This amendment says that you don’t have to say anything at your trial.

• A. 8th
• B. 5th
• C. 2nd
• D. 3rd

How many Amendments are there in the Constitution?

• 10
• 25
• 27
• 52

How many Amendments are in the Bill of Rights?

• 10
• 20
• 25
• 27

The Bill of Rights is sometimes described as a:

• list of things people must do to become citizens
• a list of the people's civil rights
• A list of rules people must obey
• An explanation of how amendments are made

What do the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-sixth amendments all have in common?

•   a. They each define the rights of all citizens.
•   b. They each undo previous amendments.
• c. They each give voting rights to a group that did not previously have them.
• d. They were each adopted in the 1800s.

The Seventeenth Amendment provides that senators are elected

• directly by the people of each state.
• by the state legislatures.
• by the electoral college
• by the House of Representatives.

The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees

• that states will not deny anyone equal protection of the laws.
• that everyone except criminals will be counted when figuring a state's number of representatives in Congress
• the right to vote to all former slaves.
• the same rights as those named in the Fifth Amendment.

You can infer from the Twenty-third Amendment that

•  people living in Washington, D.C., were not entitled to vote for President before the  amendment was passed
• Washington, D.C., has been treated like a state for most purposes in the Constitution.
• the population of Washington, D.C., is very large
• the people in Washington, D.C., did not care if they could vote for President or not.

Which amendment states that a person may be elected to no more than two consecutive terms as President?

• 12th
• 17th
• 20th
• 22nd