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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A member who has been assigned the floor and has begun to speak, cannot be interupted by: | a point of order to notify the assembly that there is no quorum. |
| The following are certain optional headings not prescribed in the usual order of business, with the exception of: | special Orders |
| After a Call of the House has been ordered, before the quorum is established: | only motions related to the call may be allowed. |
| The program: | may be preceeded to at any time during the meeting by special rule or practice. |
| When a question that is not pending is made an order of the day, it is usually made: | a special order. |
| When an organization has a permanent rule in the bylaws requiring all resolutions to be submitted to at least six weeks in advance of the convention to the resolutions committee: | it is often provided that resolutions can also be introduced at the convention if permitted by a two-thirds vote in each individual case |
| When a question is pending and the meeting adjourns for loss of a quorum, the question: | at the next meeting, to be considered, must be brought up as new business if it is proven introduction was made after the quorum was no longer present. |
| Which of the following terms refers to closely related concepts having to do with the order in which business is taken up in a session and the pre-scheduling of the particular business? | All of the above are correct. |
| When a motion is opened to debate, the chair recognizes first: | the member who made the motion, if he wishes to speak. |
| The decision to recess a meeting rather than adjourn can affect members' ability to: | Suspend the Rules |
| When organizing a society, the first item of business at the second meeting is: | reading and approval of the minutes of the first meeting. |
| In a voluntary society, the quorum should be: | considerably less than a majority of its members. |
| If an organization schedules the dates of its regular meetings in advance of each meeting by resolution: | members must be notified in advance of each regular meeting. |
| If an urgent item of business was advanced in order by suspending the rules, the regular order of business can be returned to before the completion of the advanced question by: | adopting a motion to lay the pending question on the table |
| Which heading in the usual order of business is the only one generally needed for a mass meeting? | New Business |
| To compute the number of days' notice required in the bylaws to call a special meeting: | include the day of mailing, holidays and week-ends and exclude the day of the meeting. |
| The bylaws at the level on which a convention is authorized should: | specify its voting members |
| An adjourned meeting is: | a meeting in continuation of the session of the immediately preceding regular or special meeting. |
| If the resolutions committee is required a platform or policy for adoption, the words used for the beginning of each paragraph of the preamble are as follows: | Recalling ...; |
| At a special meeting called to consider purchase of a new building, the following business may always be conducted: | a motion to place a special limit on the length of speeches throughout the meeting. |
| In parliamentary terms, a session: | is the complete unit of engagement in proceedings by the assembly. |
| A temporary organization may set up rules providing for the hour and plae for holding meetings, ... and a parliamentary authority to be used. If the rules about meetings specify periodic dates on which meetings are to be held: | each meeting is a separate session. |
| At an adjourned meeting, all of the following apply except: | the usual order of business is followed. |
| Rules for public sessions: | may invite the public to express their viewss, often with time limits imposed. |
| While a motion is open to debate, a member is entitled to preference in recognition if he: | rises to give previous notice of another motion. |
| While an undebatable question is immediately pending, a member seeks recognition. What is the proper course of action for the chair? | Ask the member for what purpose he rises. |
| When no question is pending and a member has risen seeking the floor to make a main motion, which of the following members is entitled to be recognized first if he rises and states that he rises for the purpose of: | making a motion to reconsider and enter on the minutes. |
| If the chair is in doubt as to whom is entitled to the floor, which of the following applies? | He can allow the assembly to decide the question by a vote, in which case the member who receives the largest vote is entitled to the floor. |
| If the organization has no special rule, how long and how many times a day may a member speak on a debatable motion? | Twice for ten minutes each time/ |
| At a convention, a main motion is pending; heated debate ensues. Mr. A debates once in the morning and again in the afternoon. The question is postponed until the following day. How many times may Mr. A debate this question when it arises the next day? | Twice |
| All of the following are fules of debate except: | use the third person to refer to yourself. |
| How much discussion of an undebatable motion should be allowed? | A few words of factual explanation to expedite business. |
| A question of privilege has interrupted business and is pending. Which of the following is correct? | The motion is debatable. |
| The organization of a society is effected by: | adoption of bylaws and signing of a membership roll. |
| A committee of the whole, lacking a quorum, can: | do nothing but rise and report to the assembly. |
| The standard order of business for ordinary societies includes special orders: | immediately before unfinished business and general orders. |
| In some societies with frequent meetings for social or cultural purposes at which business may be transacted and a session every month or quarter especially for business, the term "regular meetings" applies: | particularly to the regular business session. |
| Two or more organizations each discontinue their independent existence and a new entity is formed which includes the membership of each organization in the case of a: | consolidation |
| In the absence of any bylaw provision, the quorum for a convention is: | a majority of the delegates who have been registered as in attendance. |
| A general order for a particular hour: | does not interrupt a pending question |
| The minimum essential officers for the conduct of business in a deliberative assembly are a: | presiding officer and a secretary. |
| When the president of a constituent unit is unable to be present at a convention, his place is taken by: | the first vice-president |
| The Credentials Committee of a convention: | makes a supplementary report at the beginning of each day |
| The Program Committee of a convention: | arranges activities designed for members' education, motivation, and entertainment. |
| The proper order for the opening ceremonies of a convention is: | invocation, national anthem, pledge of allegiance, welcome from a local official, response by the presiding officer or his designee |
| In societies, charter members: | are those members who signed the membership roll at the meeting where the bylaws were adopted |
| In a convention, greater detail and precision in setting up the order of business is necessary because: | timing is important if there is to be media coverage, or appearances by professional artists. |
| If a member wishes to take up a motion out of its proper order, and there are two items ahead of it, he may: | lay the intervening items on the table individually as the arise. |
| Parliamentary standing rules in a convention may be suspended by a: | majority vote without debate |
| If the vote had been taken, or begun, and it is found that a member rose and addressed the chair with reasonable promptness: | the vote is null and void and debate begins or is resumed. |
| In cases where more than a quarterly time interval will elapse before the next regular business session, an order of the day: | cannot be made for a time beyond the end of the present session. |
| An adjournment of an assembly: | terminates a meeting and may end a session. |
| Through the adoption of what motion does a pending motion become an order of the day at a future time? | Postpone to a certain time. |
| Nomination and election of officers at a convention: | should take place early in the convention. |
| A member may both speak in debate and conclude by offering the following motions except: | object to the consideration of the question |
| When an elected delegate departs the convention: | the alternate cannot substitute for a delegate who remains registered. |
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