How it works
This AP Gov Congress practice test has 66 questions of our own on the legislative branch: the House and Senate, their powers, how a bill moves and how members vote. It is unofficial and not affiliated with the College Board.
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What the questions cover
The College Board's course description, effective fall 2026 and read October 11, 2026, opens Unit 2, Interactions Among Branches of Government, with three topics on Congress. The bank follows them: 2.1, the Senate and the House (26 questions), 2.2, structures, powers and functions (24), and 2.3, congressional behavior (16). The description gives topics no weights, so the spread is ours.
Sources you can open
Constitution questions quote the National Archives transcript. The rest cite a page of the U.S. Senate, the House, USA.gov, the Treasury or the Census Bureau, Federalist No. 51 at the Avalon Project, the course description, or a Wikipedia article.
- Pair each power with its chamber: the House impeaches and starts revenue bills; the Senate tries impeachments, confirms nominees and votes on treaties.
- Keep three counts apart: a simple majority passes a bill, 60 senators end a filibuster, two thirds of each chamber override a veto.
- Baker v. Carr and Shaw v. Reno are the required cases on redistricting. Know what each let voters challenge.
Questions and answers
What unit is Congress in AP Gov?
Unit 2, Interactions Among Branches of Government, topics 2.1 to 2.3. The unit also covers the presidency, the courts and the bureaucracy, and it carries 25 to 36% of the multiple-choice section.
What is on an AP Gov legislative branch practice test?
The design of the two chambers, the enumerated and implied powers of Congress, committees and floor rules, the filibuster and cloture, mandatory and discretionary spending, pork-barrel bills and logrolling, and how parties, elections and redistricting shape votes.
How do the House and the Senate differ for AP Government?
The House has 435 members, all elected every two years, with debate set by the Rules Committee and the first move on revenue bills. The Senate has 100 members, a third elected every two years, and votes on treaties and nominations.
Which Supreme Court cases go with Congress in AP Government?
Baker v. Carr (1962), which let federal courts hear challenges to redistricting, and Shaw v. Reno (1993), on districts drawn by race. Both rest on the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Does this AP Government Congress practice test use real exam questions?
No. The College Board owns the real questions, and none appears here, even in other words. Every question was written for this page from topics 2.1 to 2.3 of the course description, the legislative branch topics of AP Government.