US Basic Civics Test MCQ Multiple Choice Questions - Page 2 for Practice

Q: 34. What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States

Correct Answer is: Terrorists attacked the United States

Q: 35. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?

Correct Answer is: The Bill of Rights

Q: 36. What is the supreme law of the land

Correct Answer is: The Constitution

Q: 37. Who signs bills to become laws

Correct Answer is: The President

Q: 38. What happened at the Constitutional Convention

Correct Answer is: The Constitution was written

Q: 39. What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress

Correct Answer is: The Senate and House of Representatives

Q: 40. Who is the Commander in Chief of the military?

Correct Answer is: The President

Q: 41. What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?

Correct Answer is: Checks and balances

Q: 42. Who is in charge of the executive branch?

Correct Answer is: The President

Q: 43. What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance

Correct Answer is: The United States

31. We elect a U.S. Representative for how many years

Six (6)
Two (2)
Four (4)
Eight (8)

32. Name one branch or part of the government

State government
Legislative
Parliament
United Nations

33. We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?

Ten
Four
Two
Six

34. What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States

The accident at Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant occurred
Hurricane Andrew struck the United States
Terrorists attacked the United States
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor

35. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?

The Articles of Confederation
The inalienable rights
The Declaration of Independence
The Bill of Rights

36. What is the supreme law of the land

The Articles of Confederation
The Constitution
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Declaration of Independence

37. Who signs bills to become laws

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
The Vice President
The Secretary of State
The President

38. What happened at the Constitutional Convention

The Declaration of Independence was written
The Emancipation Proclamation was written
The Constitution was written
The Virginia Declaration of Rights was written

39. What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress

The House of Representatives and the courts
The House of Lords and the House of Commons
The Senate and House of Representatives
The Senate and the courts

40. Who is the Commander in Chief of the military?

The President
The Vice-President
The Secretary of Defense
The Attorney General

41. What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?

The President
Checks and balances
The people
Freedom of speech

42. Who is in charge of the executive branch?

The Speaker of the House
The Prime Minister
The President
The Chief Justice

43. What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance

The United States
The President
Congress
The state where you live

44. How old do citizens have to be to vote for President

Thirty-five (35) or older
Sixteen (16) or older
Twenty-one (21) or older
Eighteen (18) or older

45. Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one power of the federal government

To provide police departments
To issue drivers licenses
To make treaties
To provide schooling

46. What is one right or freedom granted by the First Amendment

Trial by jury
To vote
To bear arms
Speech

47. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?

We the People
Congress shall make
We the British
We the Colonists

48. What are two ways that Americans can participate in their democracy

Write to a newspaper and call Senators and Representatives
Give an elected official your opinion on an issue and join a community group
Vote and join a civic group
All of these answers

49. What is freedom of religion? Choose one

You cant choose the time you practice your religion
You must choose a religion
You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion
No one can practice a religion

50. What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for

Youngest member of the Constitutional Convention
Inventor of the airplane
Third President of the United States
U.S. diplomat

US Basic Civics Test MCQ Multiple Choice Questions - Page 2 for Practice

31. We elect a U.S. Representative for how many years

32. Name one branch or part of the government

33. We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?

34. What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States

35. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?

36. What is the supreme law of the land

37. Who signs bills to become laws

38. What happened at the Constitutional Convention

39. What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress

40. Who is the Commander in Chief of the military?

41. What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?

42. Who is in charge of the executive branch?

43. What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance

44. How old do citizens have to be to vote for President

45. Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one power of the federal government

46. What is one right or freedom granted by the First Amendment

47. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?

48. What are two ways that Americans can participate in their democracy

49. What is freedom of religion? Choose one

50. What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for

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