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NAEP Civics Grade 8 - Question List

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31. The Constitution requires that the President's nominations to the Supreme Court be approved by the Senate. This is an example of
  1. legislative supremacy
  2. federalism
  3. checks and balances
  4. judicial review
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32. In your town, some of the citizens want to remove certain books from the public library because they think the books contain material that is harmful for children to read. Other citizens in the town want to keep the books in the library.What argument could be used to defend the opinion that the books should be kept in the library?
  1. Democracy depends on the free expression of many different opinions.
  2. Democracy depends on allowing communities to vote on what can be read.
  3. Democracy depends on the smartest people deciding what books should be read.
  4. Democracy depends on limiting access to books.
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33. In your town, some of the citizens want to remove certain books from the public library because they think the books contain material that is harmful for children to read. Other citizens in the town want to keep the books in the library.Which of the following is the most democratic and effective way to keep the books in the library?
  1. Put the books on the higher shelves of the library so only the adults can reach them.
  2. Have the library staff decide which books to keep and which books to eliminate.
  3. Start a petition to the mayor to show that people in the town support keeping the books in the library.
  4. Make the people who want to keep the books pay a special fee to keep them separate from the other books.
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34. What do all constitutional governments have?
  1. Legal limits on political power
  2. A President as the head of government
  3. A bill of rights
  4. Separation of church and state
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35. When two [people] come into [the Supreme] Court, one may say: "an act of Congress means this." The other may say it means the opposite. We [the Court] then say it means one of the two or something else in between. In that way we are making the law, aren't we? - Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court The function of the Court that Chief Justice Warren described is called
  1. judicial restraint
  2. advise and consent
  3. judicial review
  4. impeachment
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