GED Social Studies Practice Test 2

Question – 1

In the social ladder, the indentured servants and the slaves were at the bottom; the colonial elite of south were successful growers and those from the north were wealthy dealers. The signs of prosperity in the Chesapeake area were noticeable in brick and mortar. In the 17th century, the modest houses of even the most prosperous farmers had paved way to spacious mansions. In the18th century, townhouses in Charleston were often owned by the South Carolina Planters. To escape the heat in summer they would probably go to places like Newport. The southern upper class copied the English country squire both in their lifestyles, and social hunts (for example stallion hustling). Vast landholders were not restricted just to the southern settlements. The relatives of the Dutch benefactors and the men who appropriated grounds from the English regal governors regulated homes in the centre provinces. Their ranches were worked by sharecroppers, who accepted an allotment of the product for their work. In the northern urban areas, riches were progressively amassed in the hands of the traders; underneath them was the working class of gifted experts and business people. Experts studied their exchange as understudies and came to be apprentices when their term of apprenticeship (provided in seven years) was finished. Indeed, as compensation earner, an understudy regularly still existed with his previous expert and consumed at his table. Safeguarding enough cash to start a new business for him was the dream of each apprentice.



1. Why might they head off to Newport?

  • A. to break the high temperature

  • B. for stallion dashing

  • C. to be close to the sea

  • D. for social chases

  • E. to find modest houses

  • Answer:A

  • Answer Explanation:


Question – 2

In the social ladder, the indentured servants and the slaves were at the bottom; the colonial elite of south were successful growers and those from the north were wealthy dealers. The signs of prosperity in the Chesapeake area were noticeable in brick and mortar. In the 17th century, the modest houses of even the most prosperous farmers had paved way to spacious mansions. In the18th century, townhouses in Charleston were often owned by the South Carolina Planters. To escape the heat in summer they would probably go to places like Newport. The southern upper class copied the English country squire both in their lifestyles, and social hunts (for example stallion hustling). Vast landholders were not restricted just to the southern settlements. The relatives of the Dutch benefactors and the men who appropriated grounds from the English regal governors regulated homes in the centre provinces. Their ranches were worked by sharecroppers, who accepted an allotment of the product for their work. In the northern urban areas, riches were progressively amassed in the hands of the traders; underneath them was the working class of gifted experts and business people. Experts studied their exchange as understudies and came to be apprentices when their term of apprenticeship (provided in seven years) was finished. Indeed, as compensation earner, an understudy regularly still existed with his previous expert and consumed at his table. Safeguarding enough cash to start a new business for him was the dream of each apprentice.



2. What were the South Carolina growers?

  • A. bound servants

  • B. prosperous farmers

  • C. wealthy traders

  • D. extensive mansions

  • E. city squires

  • Answer:B

  • Answer Explanation:


Question – 3

In the social ladder, the indentured servants and the slaves were at the bottom; the colonial elite of south were successful growers and those from the north were wealthy dealers. The signs of prosperity in the Chesapeake area were noticeable in brick and mortar. In the 17th century, the modest houses of even the most prosperous farmers had paved way to spacious mansions. In the18th century, townhouses in Charleston were often owned by the South Carolina Planters. To escape the heat in summer they would probably go to places like Newport. The southern upper class copied the English country squire both in their lifestyles, and social hunts (for example stallion hustling). Vast landholders were not restricted just to the southern settlements. The relatives of the Dutch benefactors and the men who appropriated grounds from the English regal governors regulated homes in the centre provinces. Their ranches were worked by sharecroppers, who accepted an allotment of the product for their work. In the northern urban areas, riches were progressively amassed in the hands of the traders; underneath them was the working class of gifted experts and business people. Experts studied their exchange as understudies and came to be apprentices when their term of apprenticeship (provided in seven years) was finished. Indeed, as compensation earner, an understudy regularly still existed with his previous expert and consumed at his table. Safeguarding enough cash to start a new business for him was the dream of each apprentice.



3. What did an understudy dream of?

  • A. sparing his money

  • B. 7 years of apprenticeship

  • C. starting a new business himself

  • D. turning into a pay earner

  • E. consuming at the expert’s table

  • Answer:C

  • Answer Explanation:


Question – 4

Imperviousness to bondage took numerous shapes. Slaves might put on a show to be sick, decline to work, do their employments crudely, demolish ranch gear, set fire to structures, and take nourishment. These were all distinct enactments instead of being a part of an order. When the slaves got ready for rebellion, their target was to upset the standard of the ranch in any manner conceivable. On a few estates, slaves could realize grievances from a manager to their expert and trust that he might mediate for their benefit. In spite of the fact that numerous slaves tried to flee, few succeeded for more than a couple of days, and they frequently returned on their own. Such departures were more a dissent ?????? a showing that it could be carried out ?????? than a dash for opportunity. As ads in southern daily papers looking for the reappearance of runaway slaves made clear, the objective of runaways, generally, was to uncover their wives or kids who had been sold to an alternate grower. The mythical Underground Railroad, an arrangement of safe houses for runaways formed by abolitionists and run by previous slaves like Harriet Tubman, really helped when the ballpark of a thousand slaves achieved the North.



4. Why did the slaves decline to work?

  • A. They were sick.

  • B. They stole sustenance.

  • C. They did their occupations crudely.

  • D. They pulverized ranch equipment.

  • E. They ached to be free.

  • Answer:E

  • Answer Explanation:


Question – 5

Imperviousness to bondage took numerous shapes. Slaves might put on a show to be sick, decline to work, do their employments crudely, demolish ranch gear, set fire to structures, and take nourishment. These were all distinct enactments instead of being a part of an order. When the slaves got ready for rebellion, their target was to upset the standard of the ranch in any manner conceivable. On a few estates, slaves could realize grievances from a manager to their expert and trust that he might mediate for their benefit. In spite of the fact that numerous slaves tried to flee, few succeeded for more than a couple of days, and they frequently returned on their own. Such departures were more a dissent ?????? a showing that it could be carried out ?????? than a dash for opportunity. As ads in southern daily papers looking for the reappearance of runaway slaves made clear, the objective of runaways, generally, was to uncover their wives or kids who had been sold to an alternate grower. The mythical Underground Railroad, an arrangement of safe houses for runaways formed by abolitionists and run by previous slaves like Harriet Tubman, really helped when the ballpark of a thousand slaves achieved the North.



5. What did fleeing speak to?

  • A. a grievance about sick medication

  • B. a manifestation of dissent

  • C. an engage the expert

  • D. a steamed to the schedules

  • E. being sold to an alternate grower

  • Answer:B

  • Answer Explanation:


Question – 6

4 score and 7 years prior our fathers yielded upon this mainland another country, considered emancipation and devoted to the recommendation that all men are made equivalent. Notwithstanding we are occupied with an incredible civil war, testing if that country or any country so considered, so committed, can long continue. We are met on an extraordinary battleground of that war. We have come to commit a segment of that field as a last resting point for the individuals who here gave their lives that their country may live. It is out and out fitting and legitimate that we might as well do this. At the same time, in a bigger sense, we can’t commit, we can’t bless, we can’t praise this ground. The fearless men, living and dead, who battled here, have blessed it far above our poor power to include or reduce. The planet will neither note little nor long recollect what we say here; however, it can never overlook what they did here. . . .



6. What issues were of essential imperativeness in an extraordinary common war?

  • A. satisfaction and kinship

  • B. security and security

  • C. emancipation and fairness

  • D. fortune and covetousness

  • E. peace and success

  • Answer:C

  • Answer Explanation:


Question – 7

4 score and 7 years prior our fathers yielded upon this mainland another country, considered emancipation and devoted to the recommendation that all men are made equivalent. Notwithstanding we are occupied with an incredible civil war, testing if that country or any country so considered, so committed, can long continue. We are met on an extraordinary battleground of that war. We have come to commit a segment of that field as a last resting point for the individuals who here gave their lives that their country may live. It is out and out fitting and legitimate that we might as well do this. At the same time, in a bigger sense, we can’t commit, we can’t bless, we can’t praise this ground. The fearless men, living and dead, who battled here, have blessed it far above our poor power to include or reduce. The planet will neither note little nor long recollect what we say here; however, it can never overlook what they did here. . . .



7. What does ‘neither note little nor long recollect’ mean?

  • A. The gathering of people is not taking notes.

  • B. The TV groups are acting as a burden.

  • C. Lincoln has an awful memory.

  • D. The officers are not there to hear the discourse.

  • E. People around the globe won’t recollect the discourse.

  • Answer:E

  • Answer Explanation:


Question – 8

4 score and 7 years prior our fathers yielded upon this mainland another country, considered emancipation and devoted to the recommendation that all men are made equivalent. Notwithstanding we are occupied with an incredible civil war, testing if that country or any country so considered, so committed, can long continue. We are met on an extraordinary battleground of that war. We have come to commit a segment of that field as a last resting point for the individuals who here gave their lives that their country may live. It is out and out fitting and legitimate that we might as well do this. At the same time, in a bigger sense, we can’t commit, we can’t bless, we can’t praise this ground. The fearless men, living and dead, who battled here, have blessed it far above our poor power to include or reduce. The planet will neither note little nor long recollect what we say here; however, it can never overlook what they did here. . . .



8. Where was President Lincoln’s discourse conveyed?

  • A. on a train

  • B. on a battlefield

  • C. at the White House

  • D. in a play area

  • E. on the radio

  • Answer:B

  • Answer Explanation:


Question – 9

4 score and 7 years prior our fathers yielded upon this mainland another country, considered emancipation and devoted to the recommendation that all men are made equivalent. Notwithstanding we are occupied with an incredible civil war, testing if that country or any country so considered, so committed, can long continue. We are met on an extraordinary battleground of that war. We have come to commit a segment of that field as a last resting point for the individuals who here gave their lives that their country may live. It is out and out fitting and legitimate that we might as well do this. At the same time, in a bigger sense, we can’t commit, we can’t bless, we can’t praise this ground. The fearless men, living and dead, who battled here, have blessed it far above our poor power to include or reduce. The planet will neither note little nor long recollect what we say here; however, it can never overlook what they did here. . . .



9. What does ‘four score and seven’ most likely allude to?

  • A. officers

  • B. Speeches

  • C. sanctification

  • D. time

  • E. the war

  • Answer:D

  • Answer Explanation:


Question – 10

4 score and 7 years prior our fathers yielded upon this mainland another country, considered emancipation and devoted to the recommendation that all men are made equivalent. Notwithstanding we are occupied with an incredible civil war, testing if that country or any country so considered, so committed, can long continue. We are met on an extraordinary battleground of that war. We have come to commit a segment of that field as a last resting point for the individuals who here gave their lives that their country may live. It is out and out fitting and legitimate that we might as well do this. At the same time, in a bigger sense, we can’t commit, we can’t bless, we can’t praise this ground. The fearless men, living and dead, who battled here, have blessed it far above our poor power to include or reduce. The planet will neither note little nor long recollect what we say here; however, it can never overlook what they did here. . . .



10. What will a segment of the arena be utilized for?

  • A. graveyard

  • B. physical field

  • C. dairy animals pasture

  • D. shopping territory

  • E. cultivating

  • Answer:A

  • Answer Explanation:


Question – 11

The U.S. national government is isolated into three primary extensions of force: the authoritative, official, and legal. The administrative, or law-production limb, is controlled by Congress, which is separated into two chambers, the Senate and the House of Representatives. Each state has two agents in the Senate. In the House of Representatives, on the other hand, the amount of administrators is chosen by the number of inhabitants in each state. The Constitution dispenses principle powers to Congress, incorporating the ability to manage exchange between states, to raise cash and verify how it will be used, and to proclaim war. Congress is likewise answerable for observing the official or law-implementing limb, of the administration. The official extension is headed up by the president and is answerable for doing the requests and choices of the elected courts. The elected courts are headed by the Supreme Court and have the power to settle the disputes over Congressional law violations. The legal survey gives them the ability to decipher these laws, and in addition, the Constitution. The scholars of the Constitution set up an arrangement of governing rules around these three extensions of government to avert any one extension from coming to be excessively compelling.



11. Which of the following answer decisions is a reality, not estimation?

  • A. The legal extension has the most force of each of the three extensions of government

  • B. The major administrative forces are separated around their three extensions to the breaking point of their singular control

  • C. Congress has more power than the president

  • D. The president, ought not have the ability to veto laws passed by Congress

  • E. The commander-in-chief should not have the power.

  • Answer:B

  • Answer Explanation:


Question – 12

The U.S. national government is isolated into three primary extensions of force: the authoritative, official, and legal. The administrative, or law-production limb, is controlled by Congress, which is separated into two chambers, the Senate and the House of Representatives. Each state has two agents in the Senate. In the House of Representatives, on the other hand, the amount of administrators is chosen by the number of inhabitants in each state. The Constitution dispenses principle powers to Congress, incorporating the ability to manage exchange between states, to raise cash and verify how it will be used, and to proclaim war. Congress is likewise answerable for observing the official or law-implementing limb, of the administration. The official extension is headed up by the president and is answerable for doing the requests and choices of the elected courts. The elected courts are headed by the Supreme Court and have the power to settle the disputes over Congressional law violations. The legal survey gives them the ability to decipher these laws, and in addition, the Constitution. The scholars of the Constitution set up an arrangement of governing rules around these three extensions of government to avert any one extension from coming to be excessively compelling.



12. Which of the accompanying answer decisions differentiates the House of Representatives with the Senate?

  • A. The Senate and the House of Representatives both comprise of parts from each state

  • B. The Supreme Court has the ability to translate the laws and proclaim demonstrations of Congress to be unconstitutional

  • C. The Senate and the court rules the House of Representatives

  • D. States are spoken to similarly in the Senate and by the span of their populace in the House of Representatives

  • E. The Congress is made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate

  • Answer:D

  • Answer Explanation:


Question – 13

He has tabooed his governors to pass laws of prompt and pressing significance, unless suspended in their operational work. His consent ought to be acquired; and when so suspended, he has utterly failed to go to them.

He has declined to pass different laws for the settlement of extensive locale of individuals, unless those individuals might surrender the right of representation in the lawmaking body ?????? a right incalculable to them and considerable just to despots.He has assembled administrative forms at spots abnormal, uncomfortable, and inaccessible from the store of their open records, for the sole motivation behind exhausting them into agreeability with his measures.He has broken up agent houses over and over, for restricting, with masculine solidness, his attacks on the privileges of the individuals.He cannot, for quite a while after such disintegrations, reason others to be chosen; whereby the administrative powers, unequipped for obliteration, have come back to the individuals in question, for their practice. The state meanwhile stays present to all the dangers of attack from without, and the shakings inside.He has tried to avoid the number of inhabitants in these states; for that reason impeding the laws for naturalization of outsiders; declining to pass others to hearten their movement here, and raising the states on grounds of new assignments.He has deterred the organization of equity, by rejecting his consent to laws for making legal forces. He has made judges subject to his will alone, for the residency of their business settings, and the sum and instalment of their pay rates.He has raised an incomprehensible number of new business settings, and sent here swarms of officers, to bug our individuals, and consume out their substance.He has kept around us, in times of peace, standing guards, without the assent of our lawmaking body. He has influenced to render the military autonomous of, and predominant to, the common power.

13. How did the ruler block the legal framework?

  • A. He declined to establish certain laws.

  • B. He raised new work places.

  • C. He made it free of his power.

  • D. He pestered the individuals.

  • E. He paid for houses.

  • Answer:A

  • Answer Explanation:


Question – 14

He has tabooed his governors to pass laws of prompt and pressing significance, unless suspended in their operational work. His consent ought to be acquired; and when so suspended, he has utterly failed to go to them.

He has declined to pass different laws for the settlement of extensive locale of individuals, unless those individuals might surrender the right of representation in the lawmaking body ?????? a right incalculable to them and considerable just to despots.He has assembled administrative forms at spots abnormal, uncomfortable, and inaccessible from the store of their open records, for the sole motivation behind exhausting them into agreeability with his measures.He has broken up agent houses over and over, for restricting, with masculine solidness, his attacks on the privileges of the individuals.He cannot, for quite a while after such disintegrations, reason others to be chosen; whereby the administrative powers, unequipped for obliteration, have come back to the individuals in question, for their practice. The state meanwhile stays present to all the dangers of attack from without, and the shakings inside.He has tried to avoid the number of inhabitants in these states; for that reason impeding the laws for naturalization of outsiders; declining to pass others to hearten their movement here, and raising the states on grounds of new assignments.He has deterred the organization of equity, by rejecting his consent to laws for making legal forces. He has made judges subject to his will alone, for the residency of their business settings, and the sum and instalment of their pay rates.He has raised an incomprehensible number of new business settings, and sent here swarms of officers, to bug our individuals, and consume out their substance.He has kept around us, in times of peace, standing guards, without the assent of our lawmaking body. He has influenced to render the military autonomous of, and predominant to, the common power.

14. How did the ruler treat the authoritative figures?

  • A. He never assembled them.

  • B. He made them agreeable.

  • C. He made them consent to his wishes.

  • D. He verified that they were decently rested.

  • E. He kept their records.

  • Answer:C

  • Answer Explanation:


Question – 15

He has tabooed his governors to pass laws of prompt and pressing significance, unless suspended in their operational work. His consent ought to be acquired; and when so suspended, he has utterly failed to go to them.

He has declined to pass different laws for the settlement of extensive locale of individuals, unless those individuals might surrender the right of representation in the lawmaking body ?????? a right incalculable to them and considerable just to despots.He has assembled administrative forms at spots abnormal, uncomfortable, and inaccessible from the store of their open records, for the sole motivation behind exhausting them into agreeability with his measures.He has broken up agent houses over and over, for restricting, with masculine solidness, his attacks on the privileges of the individuals.He cannot, for quite a while after such disintegrations, reason others to be chosen; whereby the administrative powers, unequipped for obliteration, have come back to the individuals in question, for their practice. The state meanwhile stays present to all the dangers of attack from without, and the shakings inside.He has tried to avoid the number of inhabitants in these states; for that reason impeding the laws for naturalization of outsiders; declining to pass others to hearten their movement here, and raising the states on grounds of new assignments.He has deterred the organization of equity, by rejecting his consent to laws for making legal forces. He has made judges subject to his will alone, for the residency of their business settings, and the sum and instalment of their pay rates.He has raised an incomprehensible number of new business settings, and sent here swarms of officers, to bug our individuals, and consume out their substance.He has kept around us, in times of peace, standing guards, without the assent of our lawmaking body. He has influenced to render the military autonomous of, and predominant to, the common power.

15. How did the ruler feel about adding to the populace of the provinces?

  • A. He demoralized individuals from settling.

  • B. He doled out free land to individuals eager to settle.

  • C. He swayed individuals to settle.

  • D. He settled there himself.

  • E. He sent his child over to settle.

  • Answer:A

  • Answer Explanation:


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