Constitution Practice Test

What part of the Constitution lists the six goals and states that the people of the U.S. are the authority for the Constitution?

• Preamble

• Bill of Rights

• Article I

• Article II

A member of the U.S. House of Representatives serves a ____ term.

• 2-year

• 4-year

• 6-year

• 8-year

How is the number of representatives from the 50 states that serve in the House decided upon?

• Based on the population of each state

• Equal number of representatives for each state

• Based on the geographical size of each state

• Decided by the state's governor

Who presides over the Senate?

• The Vice President

• The Speaker of the House

• The Minority Leader

• The Majority Leader

Who has the power to enforce the laws?

• The Supreme Court

• The House

• The Senate

• The President

The purpose of the Constitution is to ___________.

• define government and show us how we can work together to create a good government

• tell us what to do in our everyday life

• make George Washington our first President

• give fifty-five men a job to do that might help us one day

The men who wrote it gathered in __________.

• Washington, D.C.

• New York City

• Philadelphia

• Chicago, Illinois

Why did the states need to be united by a Constitution?

• It was hard for the states to agree on important things.

• All of the states were greedy and hated each other.

• George Washington wanted to be the first President of the United States

• Benjamin Franklin was eighty-one years old, and Jonathan Dayton was twenty-six.

The federal government was created to be a government for __________.

• A few states

• the whole country

• Benjamin Franklin

• the world

Executive, Legislative, and Judicial are..

• the amendments

• branches of the government

• the framers