1. You are one of 7 members of your Town Council. Three of you carpool together to the Council's regular monthly meeting in Town Hall, and the group usually discusses something on the agenda. Is this a meeting?

a) Yes, because you are discussing public business.
b) No, because you are not meeting at the scheduled meeting time.
c) No, because there are not enough of you to create a quorum.
d) No, because you are not meeting in the Town Hall.

2. If three members of a 5-member public body hold a conference call to discuss public business, is that event a meeting?

a) Yes, because a quorum has convened and is discussing public business.
b) No, because no quorum is physically present.

3. You are one of 9 members of your County Board of Education. Things have been tense on the Board, and you all decided to go to a ball game and not discuss any of the Board's business. Eight of you went and discussed how hot the weather had been in the past week, the future of duckpin bowling, and traffic on the beltway. Was that a meeting?

a) Yes, because there was a quorum.
b) No, because this was a social occasion, and you did not meet to discuss public business, and, in fact, you did not discuss public business.
c) No, because you did not meet in the Board's meeting room.