MARYLAND MVA PERMIT TEST
Questions and Answers (100% Verified Solutions) Latest (170 Qs)
Question 1: What is the supreme law of the land
CORRECT ANSWER : The constitution
Question 2: What does the constitution do?
CORRECT ANSWER : sets up the government, defines the
government, protects basic rights of Americans
Question 3: The idea of self-government is in the first three
words of the Constitution. What are these words?
CORRECT ANSWER : We the people
Question 4: What is an amendment?
CORRECT ANSWER : a change (to the Constitution), an
addition (to the Constitution)
Question 5: What do we call the first ten amendments to the
Constitution?
CORRECT ANSWER : The Bill of Rights
Question 6: What is one right or freedom from the First
Amendment?
CORRECT ANSWER : Speech, Religion, Assembly, Press,
Petition the government
Question 7: How many amendments does the Constitution
have?
CORRECT ANSWER : twenty-seven (27)
Question 8: What did the Declaration of Independence do?
CORRECT ANSWER : announced our independence (from
Great Britain), declared our independence (from Great Britain), said that the United States is free (from Great Britain)
Question 9: What are two rights in the Declaration of
Independence?
CORRECT ANSWER : life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
Question 10: What is freedom of religion?
CORRECT ANSWER : You can practice any religion, or not
practice a religion.
Question 11: What is the economic system in the United
States?
CORRECT ANSWER : capitalist economy, market economy
Question 12: What is the "rule of law"?
CORRECT ANSWER : Everyone must follow the law,
Leaders must obey the law, Government must obey the law, No one is above the law
Question 13: Name one branch or part of the government.
CORRECT ANSWER : Congress, legislative, President,
executive, the courts, judicial
Question 14: What stops one branch of government from
becoming too powerful?
CORRECT ANSWER : checks and balances, separation of
powers
Question 15: Who is in charge of the executive branch?
CORRECT ANSWER : the President
Question 16: Who makes federal laws?
CORRECT ANSWER : Congress, Senate and House (of
Representatives), (U.S. or national) legislature
Question 17: What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?
CORRECT ANSWER : the Senate and House (of
Representatives)