Test your knowledge of the Judicial Branch with C-SPAN in the Classroom's Executive Branch quiz. All of the answers can be found within C-SPAN in the Classroom's executive resources.
1. What article of the Constitution outlines the duties, qualifications, and powers of the president?
2. Name at least three ways in which a presidential and vice presidential candidate may create a balanced ticket.
3. What determines the day on which a presidential election will be held?
4. What is the significance of the people’s vote? (Whom are they voting for?)
5. An incumbent who is not continuing for another term in office is known as what during the period between Election Day and Inauguration Day?
6. Under which law can presidents grant reprieves and pardons? What is the stipulation on this law?
7. How many terms can a president serve?
8. When is a “State of the Union” delivered? Who delivers the speech? Who is in the audience?
9. Name the some of the official and/or unofficial roles of the president of the U.S.
10. How do members of the cabinet obtain their jobs?
11. According to the historians who took C-SPAN’s Survey of Presidential Leadership, which president has the best record of leadership qualities?
12. Where was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Mel Martinez born?
13. Name three duties of the Secretary of Commerce and his staff.
14. Which amendment(s) to the Constitution address(es) rules of presidential succession?
15. How many presidents have been impeached?
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