Parliamentary Procedure Test

After the presiding officer calls a meeting to order, the next order of business is usually

• new business.

• reports of officers.

• unfinished business.

• reading and approval of the minutes.

After a motion is made, seconded, and restated by the chair, the motion is

• voted on immediately.

• pending.

• always amended.

• put by the chair as the next step.

What is the proper order of steps in considering a main motion?

• Members debate, the chair puts the question, and the chair announces the voting results.

• The chair puts the question, members debate, the chair announces the results of the voting.

• The chair puts the question, the chair announces the results of the voting, and members debate.

• Members debate, the chair announces the voting results, and the chair puts the question.

The motion to Limit or Extend Limits of Debate may be used to

• permit more or longer speeches.

• limit the length of speeches.

• allow more speeches per member.

• All of the above.

A meeting that is in continuation of the immediately preceding regular or special meeting is a (an)

• regular meeting.

• special meeting.

• adjourned meeting.

• annual meeting.

If the motion to Postpone Indefinitely is adopted, what happens to the pending main motion?

• An ad hoc committee studies it and reports back at the next regular meeting.

• It is brought back under the heading of Unfinished Business at the next regular meeting.

• It is killed for the duration of the session.

• It is automatically passed without debate.

If the main question is to be handled by a special committee (select or ad hoc), the subsidiary motion To Commit (or Refer) may specify the

• number of committee members.

• method of selection.

• names of the members.

• All of the above.

Assume that debate on a motion is dragging on. What should you do if you wanted to reduce the number of times each member could debate?

• Obtain the floor and say, "I move that debate be limited for each member."

• Rise, and without obtaining the floor say, "I move to limited debate."

• Obtain the floor and say, "I move that debate be limited to one speech for each member."

• From your seat, and without obtaining the floor say, "I move that debate be reduced."

The privileged motion to Recess has precedence over the motion to

• Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn

• Adjourn

• Refer to a Committee

• All of the above

When the incidental motion to Appeal is debatable, no member can speak more than once except the

• member who proposed the Appeal.

• member who seconded the Appeal.

• presiding officer, who may speak twice.

• officers of the organization.