Parliamentary Procedure Quiz

What motion is used to bring an item of business, an idea, or activity before the chapter?

• Postpone Indefinitely

• Incidental Motions

• Main Motion

• Subsidiary Motions

Which motion is used to modify or change a main motion, typically to add details to the main motion?

• Question of Privilege

• Amend

• Recess

• Lay on the Table

What motion kills the main motion for the duration of the current meeting?

• Adjourn

• Division of the Assembly

• Previous Question

• Postpone Indefinitely

Which motion is used to postpone action on a pending motion to a definite day, time, meeting, or event in the future?

• Postpone Definitely

• Point of Order

• Incidental Motions

• Question of Privilege

What motion is used to bring the assembly to an immediate vote on one or more pending motions, closing all debate and stopping any further amendments?

• Adjourn

• Lay on the Table

• Recess

• Previous Question

Which motion enables the assembly to lay a pending motion aside temporarily when something more urgent has arisen?

• Lay on the Table

• Question of Privilege

• Division of the Assembly

• Point of Order

What motion permits a member to make a special request at a meeting?

• Parliamentary Inquiry

• Question of Privilege

• Adjourn

• Recess

Which motion may be used by any member to bring about a short intermission in the meeting?

• Incidental Motions

• Point of Order

• Recess

• Postpone Definitely

What motion is used to close the meeting?

• Amend

• Main Motion

• Adjourn

• Postpone Indefinitely

Which motion can be used when a member thinks that the rules of the assembly have been violated?

• Point of Order

• Previous Question

• Parliamentary Inquiry

• Division of the Assembly