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Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. |
| | 1. | The deliberative assembly may exist in many forms. Which of the following forms best describes the local FFA Chapter. | a. | The mass meeting. | c. | The convention. | | b. | The assembly of an organized society. | d. | None of these are correct | | | | | | |
| | 2. | Until the chair states the question, the maker has the right to: | a. | Withdraw or modify it as he pleases. | | b. | Withdraw or modify it with the assembly’s consent. | | c. | Modify but not withdraw it without consent. | | d. | None of these are correct. | | | | |
| | 3. | The motion to “Amend” requires: | a. | A majority vote unless the motion amended requires a 2/3 vote. | | b. | A 2/3 vote when the motion amended would change something previously adopted. | | c. | A majority vote even if the motion amended requires a 2/3 vote. | | d. | None of these are correct. | | | | |
| | 4. | Which of the following is not one of the basic processes of amendment? | a. | Strike out words. | c. | Substitute words. | | b. | Insert words. | d. | All of these are basic | | | | | | |
| | 5. | In its unqualified form “Previous Question”: | a. | Is applied to more than one motion. | c. | It requires a majority vote. | | b. | Is debatable. | d. | None of these are correct. | | | | | | |
| | 6. | When a motion proposes to postpone a matter that is not pending, such as the hearing of a committee report, the motion is considered: | a. | Dilatory and out of order. | | b. | The subsidiary motion “To Postpone to a certain time”. | | c. | An incidental main motion. | | d. | None of these are correct. | | | | |
| | 7. | The motion to “Refer to a Committee”: | a. | Can be applied to orders of the day and questions of privilege. | | b. | Is debatable even to the extent of the merits of the main motion. | | c. | Requires a 2/3 vote for passage. | | d. | Cannot be reconsidered. | | | | |
| | 8. | The motion “To Postpone indefinitely”: | a. | Only takes precedence over the main motion to which applied. | | b. | Can have the motion “limit or extend debate” applied to it. | | c. | Cannot be reconsidered if it fails. | | d. | All of these are correct. | | | | |
| | 9. | A primary amendment: | a. | Is always debatable. | c. | Cannot be postponed indefinitely. | | b. | Can have lay on the table applied to it. | d. | None of these are correct. | | | | | | |
| | 10. | The main motions are divided into two kinds: | a. | Primary and Secondary. | c. | Original and Incidental. | | b. | Dilatory and Absurd. | d. | Subsidiary and Privileged. | | | | | | |
| | 11. | The motion “Limit or Extend Debate” can: | a. | Reduce the number or length of speeches. | | b. | Impose an immediate closing of debate. | | c. | Allow more or longer speeches, but cannot specify a time that all debate shall end. | | d. | All of these are correct. | | | | |
| | 12. | Adopting the “Previous Question”: | a. | Immediately closes debate. | | b. | Prevents the making of privileged motions. | | c. | Prevents the making of incidental and all subsidiary motions. | | d. | All of these are correct. | | | | |
| | 13. | The motion to “Lay on the Table” enables the assembly to: | a. | Put a motion aside with a set time for taking it up again. | | b. | Lay the pending question aside temporarily for something more urgent. | | c. | To kill or avoid dealing with a measure. | | d. | All of these are correct. | | | | |
| | 14. | The motion “Call for the orders of the day”: | a. | Requires the assembly to conform to its agenda. | | b. | Is not applied to any motion. | | c. | Must be enforced unless there is a 2/3 vote to set them aside. | | d. | All of these are correct. | | | | |
| | 15. | Concerning the motion “Question of Privilege”: | a. | Requires a majority vote to pass. | | b. | Is debatable, but only by the chair. | | c. | Does not require a second unless it is stated in the form of a motion. | | d. | Are of two types, group and personal, with personal ranking higher. | | | | |
| | 16. | The motion to adjourn is an incidental main motion when: | a. | It is moved with no business pending. | | b. | Moved in the qualified form. | | c. | No time for adjourning is already established. | | d. | All of these are correct. | | | | |
| | 17. | The motion “Recess” in its privileged form: | a. | Must be made with no business pending. | | b. | Yields to any applicable incidental motions that must be disposed of before voting on “Recess”. | | c. | Can be reconsidered prior to the taking of the recess. | | d. | None of these are correct. | | | | |
| | 18. | The privileged motion “Fix time to which to adjourn”: | a. | Can be made with no business pending. | | b. | Is in order even if there is a meeting time set for the same or next day. | | c. | Takes precedence over all motions and yields to nothing. | | d. | None of these are correct. | | | | |
| | 19. | The motion “Appeal”: | a. | Can be applied to any ruling made by the presiding officer. | | b. | The chair’s decision can be appealed any time prior to adjournment of the meeting. | | c. | When debatable, no one can speak more than once except the presiding officer, who must leave the chair while speaking. | | d. | None of these are correct. | | | | |
| | 20. | The motion “Suspend the rules”: | a. | Can be made at any time during a regular meeting. | | b. | Can be applied to any rule contained in the constitution or bylaws. | | c. | Can suspend rules relating to parliamentary procedure, but a 2/3 vote is required. | | d. | All of these are correct. | | | | |
| | 21. | The motion “Take from the table”: | a. | Is not in order until some business has been transacted since the question was laid on the table. | | b. | Is in order during the same or next session, if the next sessions held before a quarterly time has elapsed. | | c. | If not moved within the proper time limits the motion tabled dies, although it can be reintroduced later as a new question. | | d. | All of these are correct. | | | | |
| | 22. | The motion to “Reconsider”: | a. | Enables a minority in an assembly to bring back for further consideration a motion which has already been voted on. | | b. | Can be made by any member in good standing at any regular meeting. | | c. | In a regular club meeting can be made only on the same day the vote to be reconsidered was taken. | | d. | All of these are correct. | | | | |
| | 23. | The minutes: | a. | Are the proceedings of a deliberative assembly. | | b. | When minutes are not to be published they should contain what was done not what was said by the members. | | c. | Should not reflect the opinion of the secretary. | | d. | All of these are correct. | | | | |
| | 24. | For motions that are debatable, which of the following are true: | a. | Each member is entitled to debate a motion as many times as he wants but no longer than a total of ten minutes. | | b. | Each motion can be debated no more than 10 total minutes. | | c. | To change the time for debate requires a majority vote. | | d. | None of these are correct. | | | | |
| | 25. | The motion “Division of a question”: | a. | Can be applied to any main motion that is susceptible to division, but not their amendments. | | b. | Undergoes the same process with the main question, if the main motion is committed, postponed, of laid on the table. | | c. | Is the highest ranking incidental motion. | | d. | None of these are correct. | | | | |