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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following lies do Charlie and Leggett create to publish in a pamphlet against Van Buren?
(a) An act of treason.
(b) A story that Burr has stolen money from the government.
(c) A scandal in which Burr is Van Buren's father.
(d) An affair with an Indian lover.

2. What is Burr's opinion about Henry Clay?
(a) He feels he is a good leader.
(b) He feels he is corrupt.
(c) He feels he is too idealistic.
(d) He feels that he is weak.

3. Who was Burr's first wife?
(a) Eliza Jumel
(b) Charlie Vidal.
(c) Theodosia Provost.
(d) Alexandria Schulyer.

4. Who is the Whig candidate in the 1884 election for mayor?
(a) Hall.
(b) Leggett.
(c) Verplanck.
(d) Hamilton.

5. According to Burr, what did the Whigs want in the Revolutionary War?
(a) Subdivided Rule between Britian and the U.S.
(b) American Independence.
(c) British Rule.
(d) French Rule.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Burr's wife, Eliza, file for divorce?

2. How does Jefferson speak during his inaugural speech?

3. To whom does Burr compare Arnold in his attempt to invade Canada?

4. Whose administration passes the Alien and Sedition Acts?

5. In what year does Burr's wife, Theodosia, die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the experiences that Burr has had before the book begins?

2. What is the result of the Presidential election of 1800 and how is the decision made?

3. Describe the meeting that Charlie and Matt Davis have at the City Hotel.

4. Describe how other nations react to early America as a new governing nation and how France's revolution impacts the US.

5. Describe the events surrounding the trial of Levi Weeks.

6. When Mrs. Burr shows up at Burr's office, what does she tell Charlie in the carriage?

7. How does Burr persuade Jefferson to run for President with Burr as his Vice President?

8. Describe what happens after Alexander Hamilton has an affair with Mrs. James Reynolds?

9. Describe the accounting of Burr and Hamilton's duel that Burr gives when Leggett presses him for details.

10. What does Burr notice about Thomas Jefferson when he visits him at his home at Monticello in 1795?

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