Q 01/05
A) Two
B) Four
C) Five
D) Three
Answer · why
Legislative, executive and judicial, each designed to check the other two.
Q 02/05
A) 535
B) 538
C) 541
D) 545
Answer · why
That is 100 senators plus 435 representatives; add three electors for D.C. and you get the 538 of the Electoral College.
Q 03/05
A) Two
B) One
C) Three
D) It depends on population
Answer · why
Their six-year terms are staggered so that roughly a third of the Senate is up for election every two years.
Q 04/05
A) Seven
B) Eleven
C) Nine
D) Twelve
Answer · why
The number was last changed in 1869; it had been as low as six and as high as ten before that.
Q 05/05
A) 270
B) 280
C) 300
D) 320
Answer · why
There are 538 electors in all, since the 23rd Amendment gave the District of Columbia three.
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