Florida Civic Literacy Test Questions
Version 1
1. which document represents the supreme law of the land?
Correct Answer: the U.S. Constitution
2. What does the U.S. Constitution do?
Correct Answer: It sets up a federal government
3. What is the first phrase of the U.S. Constitution?
Correct Answer: "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more
perfect union..."
4. Which of the following was established by a constitutional
amendment?
Correct Answer: -The President may serve no more than two elected terms.
5. What are the first ten amendments to the Constitution called?
Correct Answer: the Bill of Rights
6. What is one right included in the First Amendment?
Correct Answer: free speech
7. How many amendments does the Constitution currently have?
Correct Answer: 27
8. Which phrase in the U.S. Constitution addresses the power to seize
property?
Correct Answer: eminent domain
9. What is one branch of the federal government?
Correct Answer: Legislature
,10. Who is in charge of the executive branch?
Correct Answer: The President
11. Who signs proposed bills into federal laws?
Correct Answer: the President of the United States
12. What is one chamber of the U.S. Congress
Correct Answer: Senate
13. How many U.S. Senators represent each state have?
Correct Answer: Two
14. What is the length of a U.S. Senator's elected term?
Correct Answer: six years
15. What is one power of the U.S. Senate?
Correct Answer: ratify international treaties
16. What is the length of a U.S. Representative's elected term?
Correct Answer: two years
17. What is one qualification to serve as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives?
Correct Answer: be at least 25 years old
18. What is the minimum number of members of the U.S. House of
Representatives representing each state?
Correct Answer: one
19. What is the length of a President's term?
Correct Answer: Four years
20. The U.S. Constitution requires that the President be elected by whom?
,Correct Answer: the Electoral Collage
21. Who is the Commander in Chief of the military?
Answer: the President
22. If both the President and Vice President are unable to serve, who acts
as president?
Correct Answer: the Speaker of the House
23. Who has the power to veto bills?
Correct Answer: the President
24. What is the highest federal court in the United States?
Correct Answer: the Supreme Court
25. Which two steps are required in order for someone to become Chief
Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Correct Answer: nomination by the President, confirmation by the
Senate.
26. Which part of the U.S. Constitution protects the freedom of religion?
Correct Answer: the Bill of Rights
27. What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
Correct Answer: -checks and balances
28. What is the "rule of law"?
Correct Answer: No one is above the law.
29. Who does a U.S. Senator represent?
Correct Answer: the residents of a single state.
30. What is one responsibility that is only for United States citizens?
, Correct Answer: serving on a jury
31. Which of the following is a right reserved for U.S. citizens only?
Correct Answer: running for federal office
32. Why did many colonists fight the British during the American
Revolution?-
Correct Answer: because they opposed taxation without representation
33. What is the purpose of Selective Service?
Correct Answer: to draft for compulsory military service
34. What is a purpose of civil rights movements?
Correct Answer: to secure equalities
35. What is the purpose of the Seventeenth Amendment?
Correct Answer: to promote democratic participation
36. Which is a shared power in the federal system?
Correct Answer: collecting taxes
37. What is due process?
Correct Answer: fair treatment in judicial proceedings
38. What is an example of a power reserved to the states?
Correct Answer: creating school systems
39. Which scenario represents a violation of the equal protection clause?
Correct Answer: A state law establishes a higher minimum wage for men
than for women
40. What is an example of federalism?
Version 1
1. which document represents the supreme law of the land?
Correct Answer: the U.S. Constitution
2. What does the U.S. Constitution do?
Correct Answer: It sets up a federal government
3. What is the first phrase of the U.S. Constitution?
Correct Answer: "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more
perfect union..."
4. Which of the following was established by a constitutional
amendment?
Correct Answer: -The President may serve no more than two elected terms.
5. What are the first ten amendments to the Constitution called?
Correct Answer: the Bill of Rights
6. What is one right included in the First Amendment?
Correct Answer: free speech
7. How many amendments does the Constitution currently have?
Correct Answer: 27
8. Which phrase in the U.S. Constitution addresses the power to seize
property?
Correct Answer: eminent domain
9. What is one branch of the federal government?
Correct Answer: Legislature
,10. Who is in charge of the executive branch?
Correct Answer: The President
11. Who signs proposed bills into federal laws?
Correct Answer: the President of the United States
12. What is one chamber of the U.S. Congress
Correct Answer: Senate
13. How many U.S. Senators represent each state have?
Correct Answer: Two
14. What is the length of a U.S. Senator's elected term?
Correct Answer: six years
15. What is one power of the U.S. Senate?
Correct Answer: ratify international treaties
16. What is the length of a U.S. Representative's elected term?
Correct Answer: two years
17. What is one qualification to serve as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives?
Correct Answer: be at least 25 years old
18. What is the minimum number of members of the U.S. House of
Representatives representing each state?
Correct Answer: one
19. What is the length of a President's term?
Correct Answer: Four years
20. The U.S. Constitution requires that the President be elected by whom?
,Correct Answer: the Electoral Collage
21. Who is the Commander in Chief of the military?
Answer: the President
22. If both the President and Vice President are unable to serve, who acts
as president?
Correct Answer: the Speaker of the House
23. Who has the power to veto bills?
Correct Answer: the President
24. What is the highest federal court in the United States?
Correct Answer: the Supreme Court
25. Which two steps are required in order for someone to become Chief
Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Correct Answer: nomination by the President, confirmation by the
Senate.
26. Which part of the U.S. Constitution protects the freedom of religion?
Correct Answer: the Bill of Rights
27. What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
Correct Answer: -checks and balances
28. What is the "rule of law"?
Correct Answer: No one is above the law.
29. Who does a U.S. Senator represent?
Correct Answer: the residents of a single state.
30. What is one responsibility that is only for United States citizens?
, Correct Answer: serving on a jury
31. Which of the following is a right reserved for U.S. citizens only?
Correct Answer: running for federal office
32. Why did many colonists fight the British during the American
Revolution?-
Correct Answer: because they opposed taxation without representation
33. What is the purpose of Selective Service?
Correct Answer: to draft for compulsory military service
34. What is a purpose of civil rights movements?
Correct Answer: to secure equalities
35. What is the purpose of the Seventeenth Amendment?
Correct Answer: to promote democratic participation
36. Which is a shared power in the federal system?
Correct Answer: collecting taxes
37. What is due process?
Correct Answer: fair treatment in judicial proceedings
38. What is an example of a power reserved to the states?
Correct Answer: creating school systems
39. Which scenario represents a violation of the equal protection clause?
Correct Answer: A state law establishes a higher minimum wage for men
than for women
40. What is an example of federalism?
