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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before the duel, how many years did the two men, Hamilton and Burr, have animosity between them?
(a) One year.
(b) Two Years.
(c) Fifty years.
(d) Fifteen years.

2. Who makes history?
(a) Priests.
(b) People.
(c) Animals.
(d) Books.

3. Who was Catiline?
(a) A treachorous and degenerate character whose scheming nearly destroyed the Roman Republic.
(b) A romantic character in a popular novel, whose life was destroyed by a duel.
(c) A woman whose rhetoric and feiry speeches nearly destroyed the American Republic's economic system.
(d) A large ship commissioned by Washington to be used to sail along the coast of the colonies and recruit soldiers.

4. What danger awaited the main participants in the American Revolution?
(a) Substantial fines.
(b) Severe damage to their credit.
(c) Three years in prison.
(d) Death.

5. According to the author, whose version of the duel outcome has persevered through history?
(a) Hamilton's followers and family.
(b) Jefferon's eyewitness account.
(c) Burr's followers and family.
(d) New York Times version.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many delegates were at the Constitutional Convention?

2. What country did America look to for guidance on how to create their new republic?

3. What do some historians call the politics and events of the 1790s in America?

4. Where, according to the Constitution, does sovreignity in the United States lie?

5. Why did the duel take place in such an out of the way location?

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