The document provides pointers for answering multiple choice questions about historical documents and events: - Carefully examine key words and phrases in questions - Choose answers that exactly match what is being asked - Guess intelligently based on information provided - Quickly eliminate implausible or unlikely options

1. Multiple Choice Question Pointers

2. Read question thoroughly Words are chosen because they have precise, exact, and specific meanings. Carefully examine key words and phrases

3. Motives of the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia include all of the following except Example

4. a. to preserve the union. b. to forestall anarchy. c. to ensure the security of life and property. d. to curb unrestrained democracy . e. to increase individual freedom. true true true true

5. Example: The new Constitution did not provide for the creation of a(n)

6. a. vice president. b. Electoral College . c. Supreme Court. d. federal court system. e. cabinet.

7. Choose the best correct answer questions may have more than one correct answer choose the one that matches the question exactly

8. Example: Regarding the French Revolution, most Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans believed that

9. a. the violence was regrettable but necessary. b. the overthrow of the king was necessary, but the Reign of Terror went much too far. c. the Revolution should be supported by American military aid. d. the Revolution represented a complete distortion of American ideals of liberty.

10. Guess intelligently use information you do know

11. Example: Thomas Jefferson received the bulk of his support from the

12. a. cities. b. North. c. South and West. d. areas where only the wealthy could vote. e. New England. agrarian policies Federalists in North Did not support the wealthy Federalists in New England

13. Quickly eliminate implausible options

14. Thomas Jefferson's failed attempt to impeach and convict Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase for "high crimes and misdemeanors" meant that

15. a. Jefferson's effectiveness as president had been lost. b. no federal judge could ever be removed from office. c. judicial independence and the separation of powers had been preserved. d. an unfortunate precedent had been established. e. Aaron Burr would go free. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX