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Parli Pro Chairman Questions

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Name three methods, other than nodding, that the chair can use to recognize a member who wishes to obtain the floor.
The chair may state the member's:
1. Name
2. Title
3. The place or unit that the member represents
What are the three steps used to bring a Main Motion before the assembly?
1. A motion is made
2. The motion is seconded by another member
3. The chair states the question on the motion
What are the three steps in the consideration of a Main Motion before the assembly?
1. The motion is debated
2. The chair puts the question
3. The chair announces the result of the vote
1. How long should the chair allow a member to speak on a motion at a regular meeting?
2. Should the chair allow a member to transfer unused debate time to another member?
3. How many times should the chair allow a memver to speak on the same motion at another regular meeting?
1. 10 minutes each time the member speaks
2. No
3. Twice
What are three methods that the chair could use to take a vote on a motion?
1. Voice
2. Rising
3. Show of hands
4. Ballot
5. Roll call
6. Standing counted vote
1. Name the minimum essential officers needed to conduct a meeting
2. What is the name of the presiding officer's official place or station?
3. What is the presiding officer called who has no title or is temporary?
1. Presiding officer and secretary or clerk
2. "The chair"
3. "The chair" (or "chairman" or "chairperson")
1. If the chair cannot determine which member should have the floor, how is it decided?
2. If the chair makes a mistake and assigns the floor to the wrong member, how can it be corrected?
3. If the ruling on a Point of Order regarding who is assigned the floor is questioned, how can the ruling be changed?
1. The assembly decides by a vote
2. A member can call a Point of Order
3. The ruling on the assignment can be appealed
The presiding officer can be addressed by several titles at a regular meeting. Name three of them.
1. Chairman
2. Chair
3. Chairperson
4. President
An organization has 75 members and is conducting a regular meeting with 60 of its members present. Thirty members abstain on a vote on the motion to recess:
1. What is a majority vote of the members present?
2. How many members voted?
3. What is the minimum affirmative vote required to adopt the motion?
1. 31
2. 30
3. 16
An organization has 30 members and is conducting a regular meeting with 21 of its members present. Six abstain on a vote on the motion previous question:
1. What is a two-thirds vote of the members present?
2. How many members voted?
3. What is the minimum affirmative vote required to adopt the motion?
1. 14
2. 15
3. 10
Assume you are the chairman at a regular meeting. What are the three items that would be included when you announce the results of a vote on the motion to Postpone to a Certain Time (or Definately)?
1. The results of the vote
2. Whether the motion was adopted of lost
3. The effect of the vote or ordering its execution
At each meeting, the presiding officer should have four items at hand. Name those four items.
1. A copy of the bylaws and other rules of the organization
2. A copy of the parliamentary authority
3. A list of all standing and special committees and their members
4. The agenda or a memorandum of the complete order of business listing all known matters that are to come up
Assume you are the chair at a regular meeting and an inconclusive voice vote has been taken on the motion to Postpone to a Certain Time.
1. How can a member obtain an accurate vote?
2. How would the chair handle the vote if a member does not demand a standing vote?
3. How would the chair handle a standing vote if it appears too close to call?
1. The member can demand a standing vote.
2. The chair should retake the vote by having the members rise.
3. The chair would take a rising vote and require a count.
Assume you are the chair at a regular meeting, and the assembly's vote on the motion to Postpone to a Certain Time (or Definitely) is 20 in the affirmative and 20 in the negative.
1. If you decided to abstain would the motion be adopted or lost?
2. Explain your answer to #1.
3. What is the only way you can vote that would affect the outcome?
1. Lost.
2. A tie vote is not a majority, which is required to adopt this motion.
3. The affirmative.
Assume you are the chair at a regular meeting
and there was no opposition to the motion to
Postpone to a Certain Time (or Definitely).
1. How would you take a vote?
2. Explain your answer to question #1.
3. How would you handle the motion if there
was an objection?
1. The vote would be taken by unanimous
consent.
2. The chair would state that "if there is no
objection to the motion to Postpone to a
Certain Time (or Definitely), it is adopted."
3. The chair would put the motion to a vote in
the regular manner.
Answer the three questions assuming that you
are the chair at a regular meeting.
Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised
(abbrev. RONR) lists three steps in bringing
a motion before the assembly. Name them in
their proper order as they apply to the motion
to Postpone to a Certain Time (or Definitely).
1. The member makes the motion to Postpone
to a Certain Time (or Definitely).
2. Another member seconds the motion.
3. The chair states the question on the motion
to Postpone to a Certain Time (or
Definitely).
Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised
(abbrev. RONR) lists six headings in a
standard order of business. Name them.
1. Reading and Approval of the Minutes.
2. Reports of Officers, Boards, and Standing
Committees.
3. Reports of Special (Select or Ad Hoc)
Committees.
4. Special Orders.
5. Unfinished Business and General Orders.
6. New Business.
Assume you are the chairman and a motion to
Adjourn has just been defeated. A motion to
Lay on the Table or Recess is then
immediately defeated. The member then
immediately renews the motion to Adjourn.
Would you allow the renewed motion to
Adjourn? Explain your answer.
No. Because a motion to Recess or Lay on the
Table does not constitute sufficient business for
renewal of the motion to Adjourn.
Except in small boards and committees, when
is the presiding officer allowed to vote?
1. To cause a tie.
2. To break a tie.
3. When the vote is by ballot.
1. After stating the question, who should the
chair turn toward to determine which
member is to speak first?
2. How many times should the chair allow a
member to speak on the same motion on the
same day?
3. How can the presiding officer enter into
debate at a regular meeting?
1. The maker of the motion.
2. Twice.
3. The presiding officer leaves the chair until
the pending business is finished.
After a debatable motion is made and
seconded, what statements may the chair make
after restating the motion to invite debate?
1. "Are you ready for the question?"
or
2. "Is there any debate?"
or
3. The chair may ask the maker of the
motion if he wishes to speak first.
After debate has concluded on a motion, what
steps are taken by the chair?
1. The chair may ask,
"Are you ready for the question?"
or
"Is there any further debate?"
2. Then the chair takes a vote on the pending
motion.
Explain the meaning of the following:
1. Previous Question.
2. Division of a Question.
3. Question.
1. A motion used to stop debate and
making subsidiary motions, except Lay on the
Table.
2. A motion used to separate a main motion or
an amendment into parts to be voted on
individually.
3. Used interchangeably with the word,
"Motion."
Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised
(abbrev. RONR) recommends the use of the
gavel during a meeting under three
circumstances. What are they?
1. An adjournment of a meeting (one rap if
desired).
2. A recess (one rap if desired).
3. Slight breaches of order (raps lightly).
Using the motion to Postpone to a Certain
Time (or Definitely) as an example, how
would the chair explain the difference
between:
1. Stating the question
and
Putting the question?
2. For a voice vote on the motion to
Postpone to a Certain Time (or
Definitely), which side is the vote taken on
first, the affirmative or the negative?
1. For stating the question, the chair states the
motion to Postpone to a Certain Time (or
Definitely) and indicates it is open to
debate.
In putting the question, the chair puts the
motion to Postpone to a Certain Time (or
Definitely) to a vote.
2. Affirmative.
Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised
(abbrev. RONR) lists three steps in
considering a motion before the assembly.
Name them in their proper order as they
apply to the motion to Postpone to a Certain
Time (or Definitely).
1. Members debate the motion to Postpone
to a Certain Time (or Definitely).
2. The chair puts the motion to Postpone to a
Certain Time (or Definitely) to a vote.
3. The chair announces the result of the vote
on the motion to Postpone to a Certain
Time (or Definitely).
1. What are two phrases the chair can use
when putting the question when they
believe debate has concluded?
2. What does the Latin term viva voce
(pronounced VIE-vuh VOE-see) mean?
1. "Are you ready for the question?"
or
"Is there any further debate?"
2. To take a voice vote.
Assume you are the chairman at a regular
meeting and the motion to Postpone to a
Certain Time (or Definitely) is pending.
1. How many times would you allow each
member to debate the motion at that
meeting?
2. How many minutes would you allow each
member to debate each time at that
meeting?
3. What phrase would you used to indicate
that a member debated a motion twice at a
meeting and cannot speak on it again?
1. Two times.
2. Ten minutes.
3. The member has exhausted his right to
debate that motion.
1. Which vote is taken first by the chairman?
2. What is the exception to the rule that the
chairman must take the negative vote?
3. Should the chair call for abstentions when
taking a vote?
1. Affirmative.
2. A negative vote is usually not taken on
motions that are noncontroversial or of a
complimentary or courtesy nature.
3. No.
As chairman, how would you respond to the
following questions by members at a regular
meeting:
1. Can I vote on a motion that will allow my
parents to sell refreshments at our
upcoming dance?
2. Explain your answer to question #1.
3. Can I vote for myself as a candidate for
chapter president?
1. Yes.
2. No member should vote on a matter which
he/she has personal interest. However, the
member cannot be made to not vote for the
motion to purchase dance refreshments
from his parents.
3. Yes.
Name three ways that the presiding officer
may recognize a member.
1. By announcing their name or title.
2. By stating "The chair recognizes Mr./Ms.
Smith" or title.
3. If no one else rises and everyone can see,
the chair may nod to the member addressing
the chair.
1. There are two phrases by which the
presiding officer may indicate that the
floor is open to debate. What are those
two phrases?
2. If a member rises and addresses the chair
when a non-debatable question is the
immediately pending question, what
phrasing should the presiding officer use
in response?
1. "Are you ready for the question?"
and
"Is there any debate?"
2. "For what purpose does the member rise?"
Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised
(abbrev. RONR) lists eleven duties of the
presiding officer. Name five of them.
1. Call the meeting to order at the appropriate
time having ascertained that a quorum is
present.
2. To announce in proper sequence the
business that comes before the assembly.
3. To recognize members who are entitled to
the floor.
4. To state and put to a vote all questions that
legitimately come before the assembly as
motions.
5. To protect the assembly from obviously
dilatory motions by refusing to recognize
them.
6. To enforce the rules relating to debate and
those relating to order and decorum within
the assembly.
7. To expedite business in every way
compatible with the rights of members.
8. To decide all questions of order, subject to
an appeal.
9. To respond to inquiries of members relating
to parliamentary law or factual information.
10. To authenticate by his or her signature,
when necessary all acts, orders or
proceedings of the assembly.
11. To declare the meeting adjourned when the
assembly so votes or at the time prescribed
in the program.
1. What does the term "gaveling through" a
measure mean?
2. Who is responsible for keeping track of
the time a member has spoken in debate?
3. If the chair needs assistance in tracking the
time a member has spoken, what can the
chair do?
1. When the chair attempts to put a question to
a vote in order that no member may obtain
the floor.
2. The presiding officer or chairman.
3. The chair can appoint timekeepers.
1. If the presiding officer is a member of the
assembly, there is one type of vote in
which they can always vote. What is it?
2. In all other circumstances, the chair should
only vote in two cases. What are the two
cases?
1. When the voting is by ballot.
2. To create a tie
and
To break a tie.
1. Should the chair announce abstentions in a
counted vote? Explain your answer.
2. Are abstentions counted in the total votes
cast? Explain your answer.
3. Can the chair, if a member, vote by ballot
and in the event of a tie vote also break the
tie in an election? Explain your answer.
1. No. Abstentions are not counted or
otherwise determined.
2. No. Only votes cast are counted.
3. No. One person, one vote.
1. If a member wishes a rising vote to be
counted, how may they accomplish this?
2. Unless there is a special rule of order to
the contrary, what vote is required to order
a vote to be counted?
3. If the chair wishes a rising counted vote to
be counted, how may they accomplish this
and what vote does it take?
1. By moving that the vote be counted.
2. Majority vote.
3. No vote is required. The chair can order the
vote be counted.
There are three steps by which a motion is
brought before the assembly. Name them in
order.
1. The motion is made.
2. The motion is seconded.
3. The motion is restated by the chair.
There are six steps from the time there is no
business pending until a motion is disposed
of. Name the six steps in order.
1. The motion is made.
2. The motion is seconded.
3. The motion is restated by the chair.
4. The motion is debated (if debatable)
5. The chair puts the question or puts it to a
vote.
6. The chair announces the result of the vote.
There are three steps in the chair's
announcement of the result of a vote. Name
them in order.
1. Declaration of which side "has it".
2. Declaration that the motion is adopted or
lost.
3. A statement indicating the effect of the vote
or ordering its execution.
Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised
(abbrev. RONR) lists five types of
deliberative assemblies. Name five (or
three) of them.
1. Mass Meeting.
2. Local Assembly of an Organized Society.
3. Convention or Convention of Delegates.
4. Legislative Body.
5. Board.
Assume that you are chairing a meeting with
200 members in attendance, not including
yourself. All members of the assembly cast a
vote on a Main Motion.
1. What is a 51% vote of all members?
2. What is majority vote of all members?
3. Is a 51% vote the same as a majority vote?
1. 102 (.51 x 200 = 102)
2. 101
3. No
What subsidiary motions can be made as
incidental main motions?
1. Postpone Indefinitely.
2. Amend.
3. Commit or Refer
4. Postpone to a Certain Time (or Definitely).
5. Limit or Extend Limits of Debate.
Explain the rules for the chair for the following
procedures if there are less than a dozen
members in attendance at a board or
committee meeting under rules for small
boards:
1. Debate.
2. Voting.
3. Making motions.
1. The chair may speak without leaving the
chair.
2. The chair may vote on all motions.
3. The chair may make motions without leaving
the chair.
Some organizations allow a nonmember to
serve as a temporary presiding officer. What
members of an organization normally must
approve this action?
1. President.
2. Vice president.
3. Assembly by a majority vote.
1. How does the presiding officer speak of
himself?
2. When should the presiding officer refer to
members by their name?
1. He always refers to himself as "the chair"
("the chairman" is also an acceptable
answer)
2. When assigning the floor
and
when announcing committee members.
1. If the bylaws require that an election be
held at a specific meeting of the assembly
and a quorum is not present, what steps
should be taken if the assembly meets less
often than quarterly and its clear no
quorum can be obtained?
2. If more often than quarterly?
1. The assembly can either provide for an
adjourned meeting and postpone it to that
meeting, or simply postpone it to the next
regular meeting.
2. The assembly should provide for an
adjourned meeting and postpone the election
to that time.
Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn can be
made after an assembly has voted to adjourn
but before the assembly has been declared
adjourned by the chairman. Name three other
parliamentary steps that are in order under the
same circumstances.
1. To inform the assembly of important business
requiring attention before adjournment.
2. To make important announcements.
3. To make a motion to Reconsider a previous
vote.
4. To give notice of a motion to be made at the
next meeting where the motion requires
previous notice.
5. To make a motion to Reconsider and Enter
on the Minutes. (This is not an FFA
permissible, but may be used as an answer.)
Assume you are the chair at a regular meeting
and a member wishes to change his/her vote
on the motion to Postpone to a Certain Time.
1. Would you allow her to change?
2. Explain your answer.
3. Explain how it could be changed after the
result was announced.
1. It depends on when the request was made.
2. The vote may be changed up to the time the
result was announced.
3. It can be changed by unanimous consent of
the members at the meeting.
1. Why should the chair refrain from
speaking in debate on most questions?
2. Name two motions on which the presiding
officer is not required to relinquish the
chair in order to debate.
1. To maintain his impartiality in an assembly.
2. Appeal
and
A Point of Order that has been submitted to
the judgment of the assembly.
Roberts Rules of Order Newly Revised
(abbrev. RONR) lists nine rules of decorum in
debate. Name five of them.
1. Confine remarks to the merits of the
pending question.
2. Refrain from attacking a member's motives.
3. Address all remarks through the chair.
4. Avoid the use of members' names
5. Refrain from speaking adversely on a prior
action not pending.
6. Refrain from speaking against one's own
motion.
7. Reading from papers or quotations etc.
without permission.
8. Remain seated during an interruption by the
chair.
9. Refrain from disturbing the assembly.
1. Can a member conclude their debate by
offering a secondary motion such as
Previous Question within a single
recognition by the chair? Explain your
answer.
2. Can a member preface their motion with a
few words of explanation? Explain your
answer.
3. If a member calls out "Question" while a
member is speaking indicating they are
ready to vote or moving the Previous
Question, how should the chair respond?
1. Yes. A member may begin by debating a
motion and conclude by offering a
secondary motion.
2. Yes. As long as it does not become a
speech.
3. The chair has a duty to obtain order and
protect the rights of the member entitled to
the floor. The chair should caution the
member not to interrupt and not handle this
as the Previous Question.
Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised
(abbrev. RONR) gives general guidance of
three instances when the presiding officer
should assign the floor for debate when they
may not have been the first to rise and
address the chair. Name them.
1. If the maker of the motion claims the floor
and has not already spoken on the question.
2. No one is entitled to the floor a second time
on the same day as long as any other
member who has not spoken desires the
floor.
3. In cases where the chair knows that the
person seeking the floor have opposite
opinions on the question, the chair should
let the floor alternate as far as possible.
(A member may rise to give previous notice
of another motion.)
Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised
(abbrev. RONR) lists four instances when a
member is entitled to preference in
recognition when a debatable question is
immediately pending. Name three of those
instances.
1. If the maker of the motion claims the floor
and has not already spoken on the question.
2. No one is entitled to the floor a second time
on the same day as long as any other
member who has not spoken desires the
floor.
3. In cases where the chair knows that the
person seeking the floor has opposite
opinions on the question, the chair should
let the floor alternate as far as possible.
4. A member may rise to give previous notice
of another motion.
1. Should the chair preside if a motion is
presented to commend, reprimand or
otherwise applies only to the chair?
Explain your answer.
2. Should the chair turn the chair over to
another member during a vote that would
re-elect themselves as well as other
officers? Explain your answer.
3. According to Robert's Rules of Order
Newly Revised (abbrev. RONR), what
should the chair do while a member is
speaking in debate?
1. No. Turn over the chair to the vice president
or appropriate temporary occupant during
consideration of that motion.
2. No. More than just the chair is involved in
the action, so since the election is not
unique to the chair, they may still preside.
3. Remain seated.
1. Is a motion required to approve the
minutes? Explain your answer.
2. If a correction is offered to the minutes,
how is the correction originally treated or
voted on?
3. If a member objects during the unanimous
consent vote, how is the correction
treated?
1. No. A motion is not required to approve the
minutes, although a motion to do so is not
out of order.
2. The correction is voted on by unanimous
consent.
3. Like any other amendment.
1. Is it proper for an un-audited treasurer's
report to be approved by the assembly?
Explain your answer.
2. If several sets of minutes from several
meetings have not been approved, in what
order are they read and approved?
3. If the minutes show that there are no
special orders or unfinished business, after
reports of special committees have
concluded, how does the chair invite the
next item of business?
1. No. The report requires no action by the
assembly.
2. In order from earliest to latest.
3. Is there any new business?
If a motion arising from a standing committee
report was laid on the table at the last meeting
which was within a quarterly interval, under
what headings in a standard order of business
may this motion be taken from the table?
1. Reports of Officers, Boards, and Standing
Committees.
2. Unfinished Business.
3. New Business.
If a special order was laid on the table at the
last meeting which was within a quarterly
interval, under what headings in a standard
order of business may this motion be taken
from the table?
1. Special Orders.
2. Unfinished Business and General Orders.
3. New Business.
1. If a motion incident to the report of a
committee appointed at previous meeting
was received at the last meeting which
was not within a quarterly interval and
immediately laid on the table, under what
headings in a standard order of business
may this motion be taken from the table?
2. Under what headings in a standard order
of business may this motion be renewed?
1. It may not be taken from the table.
2. Reports of Special Committees because that
is where it originally arose.
and
New business.
1. An adopted agenda contains a
prescheduled recess for a particular hour.
If business is pending when the particular
hour arrives, what should the chair do?
2. If the particular hour arrives and the
previous question has been ordered on all
pending motions, what should the chair
do?
3. If a member moves to reschedule the
recess or extend the time for considering
the pending question, what vote is
required to adopt these motions?
1. Declare the recess.
2. By unanimous consent complete the voting
on the pending business.
3. Two-thirds.
1. If a motion is adopted to change the limits
of debate is adopted while an amendment
is pending and it does not specify to which
motions it applies, to what motion or
motions does the limitation apply?
2. If a motion is adopted to limit debate to
one debate per person is adopted while no
business is pending and it does not specify
to which motions it applies, to what
motion or motions does the limitation
apply?
3. If a member wanted to permanently alter
the limits of debate at all meetings, how
would they accomplish this?
1. The amendment and any subsequent
debatable motions on that main motion, but
not the main motion.
2. All debatable motions for the entire session.
3. Propose and adopt a special rule of order to
that effect.
A member rises to a Parliamentary Inquiry
and asks how they can remove the limit on
the number of debates per person but not the
length of debates by a majority vote. As the
chair, name three responses that would be
correct.
1. Move to go into a Committee of the Whole.
2. Move to go into a Quasi-Committee of the
Whole.
3. Move to Consider the motion Informally.
1. A main motion is pending and a member
requests permission to withdraw a motion,
when the chair asks unanimous consent to
withdraw the motion, another member
objects to granting permission. Can the
chair assume the motion to grant
permission to withdraw the motion?
Explain your answer.
2. Does this motion require a second?
Explain your answer.
3. If a member, other than the motion maker,
suggests the member withdraw the motion,
and the member accepts the request
does the motion assumed by the chair to
grant permission to withdraw the motion
require a second? Explain your answer.
1. Yes. The chair can assume the motion if
they believe that to be the will of the
assembly.
2. Yes. To ensure that the assembly wishes to
consider the motion to grant permission to
withdraw the motion.
3. No. The member who suggested the motion
be withdrawn and the member requesting it
both surely favor the consideration of the
motion
1. During debate, several members are
speaking amongst themselves so that other
members cannot hear the proceedings. As
the chairman, what rule of decorum in
debate would you cite in warning the
members to cease talking?
2. Assume a member is speaking on the main
motion while an amendment is pending.
As the chairman, what rule of decorum in
debate would you cite in warning the
member about the content of their debate?
3. During debate, a member states that we
should not do this particular activity and
supports it by pointing out all of the faults
of similar prior activity. What rule of
decorum in debate have they violated?
1. Refrain from disturbing the assembly.
2. Confining remarks to the merits of the
pending question.
3. Refrain from speaking adversely on a prior
action not pending.
1. An important issue is before the assembly
and a member has prepared their debate on
note cards, what rule of decorum in debate
is the member potentially violating?
2. During debate, a member disagrees with a
member and states the reason that member
is in favor of the motion to which he is
opposed is because they want to run for
state office. What rule of decorum
in debate has been violated?
3. A member is speaking in debate when an
interruption from the chair occurs. What
must that member do during the
interruption to avoid violating a rule of
decorum in debate?
1. Reading from papers without permission of
the assembly.
2. Refrain from attacking members motives.
3. Be seated.
1. When does a member have the right to
change their vote?
2. After that, how can a member change their
vote?
3. If a question arises regarding voting
procedures or the counting of votes, who
has the final decision making power in
that instance?
1. Until the result of the vote is announced.
2. Only by unanimous consent immediately
following the chairs announcement of the
vote.
3. The assembly.
1. A member moves to suspend the rules
which require a quorum to be present to
conduct business. Even though this rule is
not in the bylaws, why can this rule not be
suspended?
2. A member moves to suspend the rules and
allow two main motions to be pending at
the same time, why can this rule not be
suspended
3. A member moves to suspend the rules and
waive the previous notice requirement for
amendment of the bylaws. Who does the
requirement for previous notice protect?
1. Because it protects the rights of absentees.
2. Because it embodies a fundamental
principal of parliamentary law.
3. Absentees.
1. In an election, member A. receives 5
votes, member B. receives 4 votes and
member C. receives 1 vote. If a plurality
vote is required for election, who, if any
was elected?
2. If a plurality vote was not allowed, who, if
any, was elected?
3. In an election, if member A. receives 5
votes, member B. receives 5 votes and
member C. receives 0 votes, who remains
on the ballot?
1. Member A.
2. No one is elected.
3. All three candidates.
1. Who appoints the tellers for a ballot vote?
2. Who declares the result of a ballot vote?
3. May the tellers vote in a ballot vote if a
member of the assembly?
1. The chairman.
2. The chairman.
3. Yes.
1. Who presides if the assembly adopts a
motion to go into a Committee of the
Whole?
2. Who presides if the assembly adopts a
motion to go into a Quasi-Committee of
the Whole?
3. Who presides if the assembly adopts a
motion to consider the question
informally?
1. The chairman immediately appoints another

member to preside, usually the vice-
president.

2. The regular chairman.
3. The regular chairman.
1. Who can order that a non-member leave
the meeting room for the remainder of the
meeting?
2. If the chair orders a non-member to leave,
can the non-member appeal the chairs
decision? Explain your answer.
3. Who can order that a member leave the
meeting room for the remainder of the
meeting?
1. The chair can order a non-member to leave.
2. The non-member could not appeal because
they are not a member, but a member could
appeal on the non-members behalf.
3. Only the assembly can order a member to
leave.
1. What are the requirements to adopt a
special rule of order separate from the
bylaws?
2. What are the requirements to adopt a
standing rule?
3. What is the voting requirement to adopt an
initial set of bylaws?
1. Either a two thirds vote and previous notice
or a majority of the entire membership.
2. A majority vote.
3. Majority vote.
1. A motion for the Previous Question is
pending. A member moves to Amend the
Previous Question. As the chair, how
would you handle this situation without
ruling the member out of order?
2. If the member moved the Previous
Question in a different form so that there
were two motions for the Previous
Question on the floor, in what order would
you put them to a vote?
3. If the most inclusive motion for the
Previous Question is adopted, what
happens to the other motion for the
Previous Question?
1. Suggest that the member move the Previous
Question in a different form.
2. The vote would be taken that would order
the Previous Question on the largest number
of motions.
3. It becomes moot and is ignored.
There are five types of main motions which
are not in order. Name five. (or three).
1. One that conflicts with the corporate charter,
constitution or bylaws.
2. One that presents substantially the same
question that was disposed of earlier in the
same session.
3. One that conflicts with a motion previously
adopted and still in effect.
4. One that conflicts with or presents
substantially the same question as one that
has been temporarily but not finally
disposed of.
5. One that proposes action outside the scope
of the organizations object or purpose.
Main motions are not in order that would
conflict with or present substantially the same
question as one that has been temporarily but
not finally disposed of. State three
examples of a main motion that has been
temporarily but not finally disposed of.
1. One that has been referred to a committee.
2. One that has been postponed and made a
general or special order.
3. One that is unfinished business from the last
meeting.
4. One that has been laid on the table.
5. One that is the subject of a motion to
Reconsider that has been made but not yet
considered.
There are three actions that cannot be
rescinded. Name them.
1. When it has previously been moved to
Reconsider the vote on the main motion and
the question can be reached by calling up
the motion to Reconsider.
2. When something has been done as a result
of the vote on the main motion that is
impossible to undo.
3. When a resignation has been acted upon or a
person has been elected or expelled from
membership or office and has been
officially notified of the action.
There are three items that an Objection to the
Consideration of a Question can be applied
to. Name them.
1. Original Main Motions.
2. Petitions not from a superior body.
3. Communications not from a superior body.
1. Who is responsible for determining if a
quorum is present?
2. When should the chairman determine if a
quorum is present?
3. If after initially determining that a quorum
is present, the chairman later realizes that
a quorum is no longer present, what
should the chairman do as far as allowing
debate or voting to continue on the
pending Main Motion?
1. The chairman.
2. Before they call the meeting to order.
3. Debate may be allowed to continue at length
but voting on the main motion is not
allowed in the absence of a quorum.
1. If the bylaws do not establish a different
quorum requirement in an ordinary
society, what is the quorum requirement?
2. If the bylaws do not establish a different
quorum requirement in a convention of
delegates, what is the quorum
requirement?
3. What is the quorum requirement in a mass
meeting?
1. A majority of all members.
2. A majority of the delegates registered.
3. The number of persons present at the time.
There are six parliamentary steps that can be
taken after an assembly has voted to adjourn
but before the chairman has declared the
meeting adjourned or while the motion to
adjourn is pending. Name five of them.
1. To inform the assembly of business
requiring attention prior to adjournment.
2. To make important announcements.
3. To make but not take up a motion to
Reconsider a previous vote.
4. To give previous notice of a motion to be
made at the next meeting.
5. To move to Fix the Time to Which to
Adjourn.
6. To make a motion to Reconsider and Enter
on the Minutes.(This motion is not an FFA
permissible motion, but may be used as an
answer.)
1. How is the president of an organized
society addressed when presiding at a
meeting?
2. How is the vice-president of an organized
society addressed when presiding at a
meeting in the absence of the president?
3. How is a person presiding at a meeting
who has no regular title or whose position
is only temporary addressed?
1. "Mr. President" or "Madam President."
2. "Mr. President" or "Madam President."
3. " Mr. Chairman" or "Madam Chairman."
In a small board of not more than about a
dozen members, some of the formality of a
large assembly may hinder business. Name
five (or three) differences in the procedures
used in a small board versus a formality in a
large assembly.
1. Members may raise hands instead of
standing.
2. Motions need not be seconded.
3. There is no limit to the number of times a
member may speak to a debatable question.
4. Informal discussion of a subject is permitted
while no motion is pending.
5. A vote may be taken without a motion if the
proposal is perfectly clear to all present.
6. The chairman need not rise while putting a
question to a vote.
7. If the chairman is a member, he may speak
in discussion, debate, make motions and
vote on all questions without leaving the
chair.
1. Assume you are presiding over a meeting
in which you are considering a Main
Motion and a general order has been set
for 2:00 p.m. It is now 2:05 and a member
"Calls for the Orders of the Day". Can the
general order interrupt the pending
business? Explain your answer.
2. If the general order had been a special
order, could the special order interrupt
pending business? Explain your answer.
3. An ordinary main motion is being
considered when a member "Calls for the
Orders of the Day". You have a special
order set for 2:00 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. but it
is now 2:30 p.m. How do you determine
which special order to consider first?
1. No. Because a general order cannot interrupt
pending business.
2. Yes. A special order interrupts pending
business unless the pending business is also
a special order, scheduled recess or the
special order for the meeting
3. The one that was made first.
If a member makes a Main Motion and it is
seconded, the chair has three options as far as
processing the motion. What are the three
options?
1. Rule the motion out of order.
2. Restate the motion.
3. Assist the member with rephrasing the
motion if the motion is unclear.
1. What two members can require that a
motion be presented in writing?
2. May a member other than the motion maker
suggest that the motion be withdrawn in
light of a certain fact without recognition
before the motion is restated by the chair?
Explain your answer.
1. The presiding officer
and
the Secretary
2. Yes. A member may point out a fact which
may cause the motion maker to withdraw their
motion in the interest of conserving the
assembly's time.
1. The presiding officer
and
the Secretary
2. Yes. A member may point out a fact which
may cause the motion maker to withdraw their
motion in the interest of conserving the
assembly's time.
1. Two-thirds
or
2. Majority with previous notice
or
3. Majority of the entire membership.
Based on Robert's Rules of Order Newly
Revised (abbrev. RONR), except for small
board and committee meetings, name three
instances when the presiding officer stands
during a meeting.
1. When calling the meeting to order.
2. When declaring the meeting adjourned.
3. When explaining the rules for a Point of
Order.
4. When debating an Appeal.
5. When putting a question to a vote.
In the absence of a quorum, a motion to
Recess is pending. A member rises,
addresses the chair, is recognized and makes
the motion "that absent members be
contacted during the recess."
1. As the chairman, would your allow this
motion?
2. Explain your answer.
1. Yes.
2. It should be allowed because motions to
take steps to obtain a quorum take
precedence over a motion to Recess.
Assume that you are the chairman while a
motion to invite a speaker to the next meeting
is pending.
1. A member moves to postpone the question
to the next meeting. How would you
proceed? Explain your answer.
2. Same question except the main motion
reads to invite the speaker to the
September 1st meeting, which is your next
regular meeting.
3. A motion is pending to postpone the
motion to the next regular meeting. A
member moves to amend by striking next
regular meeting and insert indefinitely.
As the chairman what would you do?
1. Allow the motion because the main motion
reads the next meeting, which if passed at
the meeting it was postponed to, would
allow the invitation to the subsequent
meeting after that.
2. Rule the motion out of order because the
motion is in effect a motion to Postpone
Indefinitely.
3. Rule the amendment out of order because it
changes one parliamentary form into
another.
1. If the president and vice president (s) are
absent, who calls the meeting to order.
2. If the secretary calls a meeting to order,
how long do they preside?
3. Can the presiding officer, knowing in
advance appoint another member or vice
president to preside in his place?
1. The secretary.
2. Until a chairman pro tem can be elected.
3. No.
1. If the presiding officer relinquishes the
chair in order to speak in debate, to whom
does he/she relinquish the chair and what
qualification must be met by the person
assuming the chair?
2. If no vice-president is available, to whom
does he/she relinquish the chair?
3. If the presiding officer relinquishes the
chair in order to speak in debate on an
amendment, when should they return to
the chair?
1. To the highest ranking vice-president
present who has not spoken on the question
and does not decline because they wish to
speak on the motion.
2. If no vice-president is in the room, to
another member whom the chair designates
unless another member nominates another
person.
3. When the pending motion has been
disposed of.
1. At what point in a meeting is an agenda
usually adopted?
2. At a session that has no formal order of
business, if the agenda has special orders
included within the agenda, what vote is
required to adopt the agenda?
3. At a session that has a formal order of
business, if the agenda has special orders
included within the agenda, what vote is
required to adopt the agenda?
1. At the outset of the session.
2. Majority vote.
3. Two-thirds vote.
What is the difference between the chair
ruling a motion out of order, calling a
member to order and naming an offender?
1. Ruling a member's motion out of order is
not an offense but simply that the motion
made is out of order.
2. Calling a member to order is declaring the
member out of order and directing them to
be seated.
3. Naming an offender is equivalent to
preferring charges against the member.
1. If the assembly wishes to replace a
chairman pro-tem, how would they do so
and what vote would be required?
2. If the assembly wishes to replace the
regular chairman, how would they do so
and what vote would be required?
3. If the assembly Suspended the Rules to
take away the regular chairs ability to
preside, for how long would that remain in
effect?
1. Move to declare the chair vacant and elect a
new chairman pro-tem. Majority vote.
2. Move to Suspend the Rules and prevent the
chair from chairing all or part of a session.
Two-Thirds vote.
3. Until the end of the current session.
1. If a motion is made and seconded to
suspend the rules and prevent the
chairman from presiding for the remainder
of the session, what steps does that
chairman take? Explain your answer.
2. If the assembly wishes to prevent the
chairman from presiding at each
subsequent meeting but not remove them
from office or administrative office what
must they do at each subsequent meeting?
1. First the chairman states the Suspend the
Rules just as he would at any other time.
The chairman must then relinquish the chair
because the motion applies only to the
chairman.
2. Adopt a motion to suspend the rules prevent
the chairman from presiding at each
subsequent meeting.
There are six types of improper amendments.
Name five of them.
1. One that is not germane.
2. One that makes the adoption of the
amendment equivalent to the rejection of the
main motion.
3. One that would cause the motion as
amended to be out of order.
4. One that changes one form of amendment to
another form of amendment.
5. One that converts one parliamentary form to
another.
6. One that strikes "Resolved" or other
enacting words.
There are seven actions that cannot be
reconsidered. Name five of them.
1. A motion that can be renewed.
2. A negative vote on a motion that would now
be out of order.
3. An affirmative vote whose provisions have
been partly carried out.
4. An affirmative vote in the nature of a
contract when the party to the contract has
been notified.
5. Any vote which has caused something to be
done that is impossible to undo.
6. A vote on the motion to Reconsider.
7. When practically the same result can be
obtained by some other parliamentary
motion.
There are five methods by which a committee
may be appointed. Name them.
1. Election by Ballot.
2. Nominations from the floor with viva-voce
election.
3. Nominations by the chair.
4. Appointment by the chair.
5. Appointment by a motion naming the
members to the committee.
1. Assume that you are the chairman at a
meeting and a member rises to a Point of
Order that the amendment does not
require a second. You rule that the point
is not well taken. Is that ruling subject to
an Appeal?
2. What reason would you give for denying
the Appeal?
3. If the Appeal had been allowed, would that
Appeal have been debatable? Explain
your answer.
1. No.
2. Because there cannot have been two
reasonable opinions on the matter.
3. Yes. It was applied to a debatable motion
and did not have to do with decorum in
debate or the priority of business.
Name three criteria for either the number of
or the characteristics of the tellers on which a
chairman should base their decision when
choosing the tellers.
1. The number of voters.
2. The number of offices to be filled or
questions to be answered.
3. The number of candidates.
4. Accuracy of the teller.
5. Dependability of the teller.
6. The confidence the assembly has in the
teller.
7. The teller's allegiance to each opposing side
to represent that interest.
8. The teller should not have a direct personal
interest in the matter.
Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised
(abbrev. RONR) lists five instances when a
member may is entitled to preference in
recognition when no question is pending by
rising and stating that they rise for one of
these five purposes. Name three of those
instances.
1. To move to reconsider a vote.
2. To call up a motion to Reconsider that has
been made earlier.
3. To give previous notice.
4. To move to take a question from the table
when it is in order to do so.
5. To make a motion to Reconsider and Enter
on the Minutes. (This is not an FFA
permissible motion, but may be used as an
answer.)
What vote is required for a motion to remove a
president if elected to serve for two years and
until a successor is elected?
No vote. The officer can only be removed for
cause such as neglect of duty or misconduct.
The motion is not in order. Only a motion to
refer the matter to a committee to investigate the
allegations is in order.
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