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WorksheetsParliamentary Procedures
Total questions: 42
Worksheet time: 2hrs 59mins
What is last item in the FFA order of business?
New Business
Officer Reports
Closing Ceremony
Entertainment, Recreation, and/or Refreshments
The Official FFA Manual states that new business is taken up immediately after
Officer Reports
Committee Reports
Minutes of the Previous Meeting
Unfinished Business
Which one of the following is one duty of the FFA Vice President?
Collect dues and special assessments
Coordinate all committee work
Prepare and maintain a chapter scrapbook
Welcome guests and visitors
The main motion is a motion that
takes precedence over everything.
Can be applied to no other motion.
Can be moved at any time.
Always requires a majority vote.
Main motions are not in order which
Conflict with national laws.
Conflict with or present the same question as one which has been temporarily but not finally disposed of.
Propose action outside the scope of the organization’s bylaws or charter unless authorized by a two-thirds vote
All of the above
The motion to Postpone Indefinitely can be
Applied to all subsidiary motions.
Referred to a committee.
Laid on the table.
Applied only to the main question.
The motion to Postpone Indefinitely can be reconsidered when it has received a(n)
plurality vote.
negative vote.
affirmative vote.
tie vote.
The motion to amend can be
postponed indefinitely.
adopted without a formal vote (by unanimous consent).
referred to a committee.
laid on the table.
The process used to amend a motion by placing words at the end of a sentence is
insertion.
striking out.
adding.
substitution.
The chief advantage of committees is that they allow greater freedom of debate on motions. This means that members can speak
three times on each topic.
only two times, but as long as they wish.
on motions even after they are adopted.
as many times as they wish.
The motion to Refer to a Committee can be applied to
Points of Order.
Main Motions.
All Secondary Motions.
Privileged Motions.
The subsidiary motion to Postpone to a Certain Time takes precedence over the motion to
Adjourn.
Amend
Lay on the Table
Limit Debate
One rule for the subsidiary motion to Postpone to a Certain Time is that
a second is not required.
it is out of order when another member has the floor.
debate may go into the merits of the main question.
a two-thirds vote is required to adopt it.
If adopted, the Previous Question is a motion that stops
the making of all subsidiary motions.
debate and the making of amendments on the pending question.
the making of privileged motions.
the making of undebatable motions.
The privileged device, Raise a Question of Privilege, is not
amendable.
debatable.
seconded.
all of the above.
If a motion is made as a question of privilege and it is seconded, what should the chairman do?
Ignore it.
Call the motion out of order.
Call for debate, and then vote on it.
Take an immediate vote on it.
A motion to recess that is made when no business is pending is a
privileged motion.
main motion.
incidental motion.
unclassified motion.
The motion to take a Recess at a future time may be proposed only
when no question is pending.
if the member who made the immediately pending motion agrees.
when another question is pending.
during the time before new business will be considered.
Which motion below could be made so that the chair would be called on to enforce a violated rule?
Postpone Definitely
Point of Order
Recess
Reconsider
A Point of Order yields to all
privileged motions.
secondary motions.
subsidiary motions.
main motions.
If you were chairman and were unsure on how to rule on a Point of Order, what would you do?
Ignore it and make a ruling after the meeting and include it in the minutes.
Submit it to a vote of the assembly.
Notify the assembly that a ruling would be made after they debate the point of order.
Consult with all the officers immediately and then make a ruling.
Which of the following must be ordered after a demand by only one member?
Object to Consideration
Commit or Refer
Division of the Assembly
Recess
If you call for a Division of the Assembly at a meeting of seventy members, this means that the vote must be taken again by
voice.
rising.
raising of hands.
paper ballot.
Which motion below would you use to obtain the chairman’s opinion on a matter related to parliamentary law as it relates to the pending business?
Parliamentary Question of Privilege
Point of Parliamentary Information
Parliamentary Inquiry
Parliamentary Authority Opinion
A Parliamentary Inquiry is not
seconded.
voted on.
subject to reconsideration.
all of the above.
According to the Official FFA Manual, which officer serves as chair of the POA public relations committee?
A. President
B. Vice President
C. Secretary
D. Reporter
According to the Official FFA Manual, which officer represents the chapter in public relations and official functions?
A. President
B. Vice President
C. Secretary
D. Reporter
According to the Official FFA Manual, which offer should have a copy of the chapter constitution and bylaws on hand at each meeting?
A. President
B. Vice President
C. Secretary
D. Reporter
Which of the following terms or phrases deal with the order in which business is taken up in a session?
A. Agenda
B. Order of Business
C. Orders of the Day
D. All of the Above
Which one of the following is not a subdivision of a "standard" order of business?
A. Reading an Approval of Minutes
B. Roll call
C. New Business
D. Reports of Officers, Boards, and Standing Commities
The actual reading of the minutes by a society's secretary may be waived if
A. the chairman decides they are not important
B. they are too long
C. They are sent to all members in advance and no member objects to not reading them
D. the secretary does not have time
The minutes do not become the official record of a society's proceeding until they are
A. Sent to members of the society
B. signed by the president
C. approved by the society
D. amended for changes
A motion arising out of a report of an officer, board, or committees is taken up
A. at the net meeting
B. immediately after the report is given
C. under new business
D. under unfinished business
For items of business that have been made a special order for a special time, the chair should
A. change the agenda before the meeting begins for the special order
B. ignore the special order and continue to process the pending motion
C. announce that the time for the special order has arrived and began processing it
D. ask that debate be limited on the pending motion to speed up the processing of it.
Which term below refers to questions that are carried over from a previous meeting because the meeting adjourned before they could be completed?
A. order of business
B. old business
C. unfinished business
D. special business
If a topic is discussed informally at a meeting and a member suggested that it be "brought up at the next meeting," the chair should announce that the topic be
A. laid on the table
B. made unfinished business
C. introduced as new business
D. postponed to the next meeting
After New Business is announced by the chairman, members can
introduce new items of business.
make a motion that failed to be adopted at the last meeting.
move to take from the table any tabled motions
Any of the above
Which of the following is an optional heading for an order of business?
Announcements
Roll call
Opening Ceremonies
All of the above
The Program is usually presented
after the meeting is adjourned
before new business
during roll call
just before the meeting is adjourned.
Main motions
take precedence over all motions
are not debatable
always require a two-thirds vote to be adopted
are out of order when another member has the floor
The motions to Postpone Indefinitely can be
applied to all subsidiary motions
referred to a committee
laid on the table
applied only to the main question
To be in order, an amendment must always be
germane (relevant to a subject under consideration)
made by member who proposed the motion that the amendment is applied to
short
in the form of a question
