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Over recent years the National Rifle Association (NRA) has played an important role in politics. It has a large number of members, whose voting strength tends to impress legislators. It holds regular meetings with members of Congress and federal bureaucrats. It gives campaign contributions to candidates who oppose gun control and spends money directly to oppose gun control supporters. Which of the following documents would the National Rifle Association (NRA) cite in support of its position on gun control?

• The Declaration of Independence
• The Preamble to the Constitution
• The First Amendment to the Constitution
• The Second Amendment to the Constitution

In your town, some of the citizens want to remove certain books from the public library because they think the books contain material that is harmful for children to read. Other citizens in the town want to keep the books in the library. What argument could be used to defend the opinion that the books should be kept in the library?

• Democracy depends on the free expression of many different opinions.
• Democracy depends on allowing communities to vote on what can be read.
• Democracy depends on the smartest people deciding what books should be read.
• Democracy depends on limiting access to books.

Question refers to the passage below from the Declaration of Independence. According to the passage, the most important purpose of government is to protect? We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

• people from harm
• the church
• the truth
• people's rights

Who is Commander in Chief of the military?

• the Attorney General
• the Secretary of Defense
• the Vice President
• the President

During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?

• the Great Depression
• slavery
• climate change
• Communism

Name one U.S. territory.

• Haiti
• Cayman Islands
• Bermuda
• Guam

Why did the colonists fight the British?

• because they didn't have self-government
• because of high taxes
• because the British army stayed in their houses
• all of these answers

Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800's

• World War 1
• World War 2
• Korean War
• Civil War

What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance?

• the state where you live
• the Presidents of the United States
• to Congress
• to the ideals of the United States

What is the economic system in the United States?

• communist economy
• capitalist economy
• socialist economy
• none of these answers