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Worksheets2025 North Dakota Parliamentary Procedure Exam State Exam
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
The motion to Lay on the Table is commonly misused in place of the motion to:
Adjourn.
Reconsider.
Commit.
Postpone Definitely (To a Certain Time)
In a non-legislative assembly that has no rules of its own relating to the length of a member's debate, no member can speak longer than:
2 minutes.
5 minutes.
10 minutes.
12 minutes.
If the chairman makes a mistake and calls on the wrong member, attention to correct the error can be called by a member immediately by:
Yelling out the word "mistake."
Raising a Point of Order.
Raising a Question of Privilege.
Calling out "Question."
If you were the presiding officer, what would be the next step you would pursue after an amendment to a main motion was adopted?
More new business
A motion to adjourn
Debate on the adopted amendment
Debate on the amended main motion
The Orders of the Day can be set aside by:
Any member who objects.
A two-thirds (2/3) vote in the negative.
The chair if there is an important item being debated.
A motion to Reconsider.
If two secondary motions and a main motion are pending at a time, which motion is the immediate pending question?
The main motion.
The first secondary motion stated by the chair.
The motion most recently stated by the chair.
They are all immediately pending questions.
To call for a Division of the Assembly:
You must have been in the majority of the original vote announcement.
You must make the call before the vote is officially announced by the chair.
Requires the chair to vote again by having the members rise.
Requires the chair to vote again by counting the vote.
If you obtained new information about your motion that has been adopted that might change the way members voted, the proper motion that you could propose is:
Rescind.
Discharge a Committee.
Reconsider.
Repeal.
An FFA chapter which has adopted Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised as its parliamentary authority:
Must follow the order of business listed in the parliamentary authority.
May change any item in the parliamentary authority by a two-thirds (2/3) vote.
May use a different parliamentary authority at committee meetings.
May adopt its own particular order of business.
The subsidiary motion Previous Question:
Take precedence over all other subsidiary motions except Postpone Definitely.
Can be applied to an entire series of pending debatable or amendable motions.
Can only stop debate on the immediate pending motion.
Yields to the order to Extend the Limits of Debate.
During a meeting of your FFA chapter's Public Relations Committee (composed of 8 members):
The chairman may speak in debate and vote on all motions.
Members may make a motion to set the number of debates allowed.
The chairman may enter into discussion and only vote to make or break a tie.
A secretary must be elected to report the committee's actions to the chapter.
When a member "has the floor," this means that:
Anyone else in the assembly may speak from their seat.
A main motion need not be seconded.
Another member may also stand and make a motion.
Recognition has been received from the chair.
Which of the following is NOT a Request or Inquiry?
Withdraw a motion.
Object to the Consideration of a Question.
Which of the following motions is NOT used to delay action on a question?
Postpone Indefinitely.
Postpone to a Certain Time (Definitely).
Commit (Refer to Committee).
Lay on the Table.
Which one of the following motions is not a subsidiary motion?
Limit Debate
Point of Order
Postpone Indefinitely
Lay on the Table.
To consider a motion later in the same meeting, a member may:
Postpone the motion definitely.
Lay the motion on the table.
Refer the motion to a committee.
Call for the orders of the day on the motion.
Incidental motions:
Have an order of precedence within themselves.
Are not in order if another member has the floor.
Usually deal with questions of precedence arising out of another pending motion.
Are the highest ranking motions in the order of precedence and therefore are adopted without a vote.
Which of the following motions is debatable?
Amendment to Extend the Limits of Debate.
Postpone Indefinitely.
Previous Question
Lay on the Table.
An original main motion is a motion that:
Is related to the business of the assembly or its future actions.
Proposes an action that is defined under parliamentary law.
Adopts a recommendation that has been proposed.
Raises a substantive question as a new subject.
The parliamentary name given to any form of discussion of the merits of a motion is called:
Deliberation.
Dialog.
Discussion.
Debate.
The subsidiary motion to Lay on the Table takes precedence over:
The motion to Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn.
All privileged motions.
The main motion and all other subsidiary motions.
The motion to Adjourn.
Which rules can be suspended with the use of the incidental motion to Suspend the Rules?
Chapter standing rules.
Chapter bylaws.
Rules protecting basic rights of the individual members.
Rules which embody the fundamental principles of parliamentary law.
Motions that assist the assembly in treating or disposing of a main motion are called:
Main motions.
Subsidiary motions.
Incidental motions.
Privileged motions.
If a question is taken from the table on the same day that it was laid on the table:
Every member will have a chance to debate the main motion again.
All motions adhering to the original main motion are still considered.
Only adhering amendments and the main motion are considered.
Only adhering incidental motions and the main motion are considered.
Which one of the following statements is true?
A main motion must always be in writing when it comes from an ad hoc committee.
A motion should never be in writing.
The chair can require that a main motion be in writing.
The secretary can demand that a main motion should always be in writing.
