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First Amendment Quiz: Part 1
Below are 12 True/False questions provided by Dr. Richard Labunski to test your knowledge of the First Amendment, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution. The answers are provided below after you click the "get score" button.
1. When Congress proposed the Bill of Rights, it put the First Amendment at the top of the list because it considered the rights protected by it to be the foundation of all other rights listed in the first ten amendments. True False 2. Students at the University of Kentucky and Transylvania University (a private university in Lexington, KY) have identical First Amendment rights when it comes to distributing pamphlets on their campuses. True False 3. When the First Amendment became part of the Constitution, it applied equally to the federal government and the states. True False 4. An amendment can become part of the Constitution only after it has been proposed by two-thirds of each house of Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the states. True False 5. The President of the United States must sign an amendment before it becomes part of the Constitution. True False 6. The Supreme Court has ruled that under some circumstances, the government can require newspapers to publish material that their editors do not want to publish. True False 7. Commercial speech, such as advertisements on TV or in a magazine, enjoy no First Amendment protection. True False 8. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress can force libraries that receive federal funding to put filters on all computers that provide access to the Internet. True False 9. Congress has provided immunity to Internet service providers (ISPs) such as America Online (AOL) so they cannot be sued successfully for anything they post on their Web sites that they did not create? True False 10. The Supreme Court has ruled that flag burning is protected by the First Amendment. True False 11. Broadcast journalists enjoy the same First Amendment rights that newspaper reporters have. True False 12. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are absolute guarantees; the Supreme Court has said that nothing can trump the right of citizens to speak their minds. True False Score = Correct answers:
1. When Congress proposed the Bill of Rights, it put the First Amendment at the top of the list because it considered the rights protected by it to be the foundation of all other rights listed in the first ten amendments.
True False
2. Students at the University of Kentucky and Transylvania University (a private university in Lexington, KY) have identical First Amendment rights when it comes to distributing pamphlets on their campuses.
3. When the First Amendment became part of the Constitution, it applied equally to the federal government and the states.
4. An amendment can become part of the Constitution only after it has been proposed by two-thirds of each house of Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the states.
5. The President of the United States must sign an amendment before it becomes part of the Constitution.
6. The Supreme Court has ruled that under some circumstances, the government can require newspapers to publish material that their editors do not want to publish.
7. Commercial speech, such as advertisements on TV or in a magazine, enjoy no First Amendment protection.
8. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress can force libraries that receive federal funding to put filters on all computers that provide access to the Internet.
9. Congress has provided immunity to Internet service providers (ISPs) such as America Online (AOL) so they cannot be sued successfully for anything they post on their Web sites that they did not create?
10. The Supreme Court has ruled that flag burning is protected by the First Amendment.
11. Broadcast journalists enjoy the same First Amendment rights that newspaper reporters have.
12. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are absolute guarantees; the Supreme Court has said that nothing can trump the right of citizens to speak their minds.
Score = Correct answers:
Try Part 2 of the Quiz by clicking here.
Created 12/13/2005 by Robert J. Trader for the First Amendment Center.
