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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two recognized methods to tell the story of the American formative years?
(a) Washington and Adams.
(b) Communisim and Democracy.
(c) Tories and Whigs.
(d) Pure Republicanism and the Jeffersonian interpretations.

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

3. According to the author, how did the creation of a separate American nation occur?
(a) Suddenly rather than gradually.
(b) With the approval of the British rules.
(c) Gradually rather than suddenly.
(d) Over a period of 200 years.

4. What does the author consider the years of 1787-1788 for America?
(a) The war between the states.
(b) The revolutionary war.
(c) The golden years.
(d) The founding movement that established American nationhood.

5. What term has changed in meaning from an inferior being to one of respect and might in the world?
(a) Writer.
(b) American.
(c) Whig.
(d) Republican.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Hamilton's second in the duel?

2. How far apart are the participants in a duel?

3. What is a hair-trigger?

4. Burr was blocked by Hamilton in his quest to be come the American minister to what country?

5. What positions had Alexander Hamilton held in the US government?

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