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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, why did Burr go to the duel?
(a) His wife begged him to go.
(b) Out of confusion about the subject.
(c) Out of frustration in solving the libelous statements of Hamilton.
(d) Out of boredom and over confidence.

2. What was one of the core principals of the Articles of Confederation?
(a) That the colonies would never number more than twenty.
(b) That the Confederate States of America should be made to exist.
(c) That a centralized political power that operated in a faraway place could not govern citizens..
(d) That it would replace the constituiton.

3. What was an "interview at Weehawkan"?
(a) A meeting between the seconds for the duel.
(b) Burr's application process to work for Hamilton.
(c) The New York Times interview of the duel participants.
(d) Invitation to a duel.

4. What was the primary form of communication in America during 1787-89?
(a) Telephone calls.
(b) Western Union Telegrams.
(c) Television messages.
(d) Handwritten letters.

5. Who was Catiline?
(a) A romantic character in a popular novel, whose life was destroyed by a duel.
(b) A treachorous and degenerate character whose scheming nearly destroyed the Roman Republic.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the main item on the agenda for the dinner?

2. In what state did the duel occur?

3. According to the author, what action would have ended the move for American Independence?

4. What danger awaited the main participants in the American Revolution?

5. How did critics of the Constitution see that document?

(see the answer key)

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