Short Answer, Multiple Choice, and Fill in the Blank

Name ______Date ______Period _____

Civics & Economics

Amendments Quiz

_____ 1. Second Amendment

_____ 2. Third Amendment

_____ 3. Fourth Amendment

_____ 4. Fifth Amendment

_____ 5. Sixth Amendment

_____ 6. Seventh Amendment

_____ 7. Eighth Amendment

_____ 8. Ninth Amendment

_____ 9. Tenth Amendment

Short Answer, Multiple Choice, and Fill in the Blank.

10. List the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment.

11. What is the name of the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution?

12. The purpose of the first 10 Amendments is to

A. limit the rights of citizens.B. make the government stronger.

C. make the economy more efficient.D. ensure personal freedoms.

13. Double jeopardy is

A. putting someone on trial for the same crime in a different state.

B. the right of the government to take private property and use it for public use.

C. putting someone on trial again for a crime of which he or she was acquitted.

D. to formally accuse a person of a crime.

14. If Joe sells important nuclear secrets to Iraq, he is committing

A. libel.B. slander.C. treason.D. theft.

15. What is needed before a citizen can be put on trial for a serious federal crime?

A. eminent domainB. double jeopardyC. an indictmentD. bail

16. The right to ______means the right to express one’s ideas to the government.

A. petitionB. slanderC. eminent domainD. libel

17. Suffrage is:

A. painB. slanderC. checks and balancesD. the right to vote

18. This amendment ended slavery in 1865.

A. 28thB. 13thC. 14th D. 19th

19. This amendment changed the voting age to 18 years old.

A. 22ndB. 21stC. 26thD. 27th

20. This amendment gave women the right to vote.

A. 18thB. 19thC. 20thD. 15th

21. The following 3 amendments are considered the Civil War amendments.

A. 1st, 2nd, 3rdB. 9th, 10th, 11thC. 13th, 14th, 15thD. 5th, 7th, 9th

22. Who was granted suffrage first?

A. 18 year oldsB. white womenC. black menD. black women

23. ______is a crime that involves harming a person’s reputation

by printing lies about him or her.

24. A ______is a court order allowing police to search a

suspect’s home or business and take specific items as evidence.

25. ______is the sum of money used as a security deposit to

allow an accused person to remain free until the trial.

26. Which amendment gave African American men the right to vote? ______

27. List one method that was used to prevent black people from voting.

28. Which amendment gives you the right to choose your own friends? ______

29. Which amendment makes the government pay the owner of a house before they can build a

highway on the property? ______

30. Explain the establishment clause. Where in the Constitution can it be found?

EXTRA CREDIT(1 point each)

In numbers 1-4, name the number of the amendment) that has been violated in each case.

1. Joseph has been arrested for shoplifting a $25 sweatshirt. The judge sets bail at $50,000.

2. Edith is arrested for robbing a bank. She cannot afford a lawyer. She is put on trial, but the

court refuses to provide her with a lawyer.

3. Police threaten Tom, pressuring him into confessing that he committed a crime.

4. The city of High Point raised the taxes on all Catholics.

Think about it!

5. A murderer is condemned to a cruel and unusual death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first one is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

(Neither room is not an answer. Pick one of the three.)