CAN YOU PASS THIS TEST?

UPDATED WITH ANSWERS (below).

Included in a recent newsfeed sent by The Great Larwyn was this item from Sphere.

It’s a 1954 8th Grade civics quiz. The child who took the test scored 98%.

Get your 8th grader to take the test — or take it yourself.

Here are the questions.

Here’s a way to measure just how far our public school system has fallen since 1954.

The Test

1.  List the Cabinet positions and the people who hold those positions at the present time.

2.  List the names of the Justices of the Supreme Court.

3.  Tell the provisions of each of the Amendments to the Constitution:

First Amendment

2nd Amendment

3rd Amendment

4th Amendment

5th Amendment

6th

7th

8th

9th

10th

11th

12th

13th

14th

15th

16th

17th

18th

19th

20th

21st

22nd

23rd

24th

25th

26th

4.  What is the Bill of Rights?

5.  Who is the President of the United States? ______ Who is the Vice President of the United States? ______

6.  How many branches of government are there? ______ Is one more powerful than another?_______

7.  What is an unwritten law? _________

8.  Two things necessary to any good government are _________

9.  The plan of government in the U.S. is in the _________

10. A constitutional law is ___________

11. An unconstitutional law is ____________

12. A law is declared unconstitutional by the __________ branch.

13. The president chooses a cabinet in order to __________

14. The Constitution grants all lawmaking powers to ___________ branch.

15. The two houses of Congress are ___________

16. The Constitution established two houses of Congress because _______________

17. The number of representatives from each state is determined by ______________

18. The Speaker of the House is ___________________

19. How is the Speaker of the House determined?

20. The number of Senators from each state is ______

21. A Senator is elected for _______ years?

22. The presiding officer of the Senate is ___________

23. The vice-president does not have a vote in the Senate unless _________

24. A president pro-tempore is ____________

25. The life of each Congress is ________ years

26. Congress convenes in regular session on ___________

27.  Congress is currently in its ____________ session

28. When may the President call Congress into special session? ________

29. The power to enforce the laws is given to ____________

30. The president’s term of office is _________

31. If a president dies while in office, he is succeeded by __________

32. The president must be a ______________ citizen

33. How old must a president be to qualify? _________

34. The oath of office is administered to the president by _____________

35.  The oath of office is taken on what date? _________________

36. The president can make treaties if _____________________

37. The highest law of the land is _________________

38. The Supreme Court may annul laws if ____________

39. A quorum in Congress is ____________

40. A filibuster is ____________________

41. The number of Supreme Court Justices is ___________

42. A writ if habeus corpus is _______________

43. A Bill of Attainder is ______________

44. An ex post facto law is ______________

45. A reprieve is ____________

46. A pardon is ______________

47. Who regulates inter-state commerce?

48. What is naturalization?

49. What is piracy?

50. Does a dictator consider the welfare of the people? _____________

51. Can a government function without the power to raise money? _________

52. Do wealth and power alone make a nation happy? ___________

53.Why was the Constitution written?

54. What happens when the Constitution is ignored?

55. Write the preamble to the Constitution.

ANSWERS