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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the main item on the agenda for the dinner?
(a) Hamilton's upcoming duel with Aaron Burr.
(b) Rumors about Dolly Madison.
(c) Hamilton's financial plan for the new government.
(d) What color to paint the presidential residence.

2. What positions had Alexander Hamilton held in the US government?
(a) Secretaries of Education and Homeland Security.
(b) Vice President and Secretary of State.
(c) Vice President and White House Presss Secretary.
(d) Washington's Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Treasury.

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

4. What is a hair-trigger?
(a) Part of the gun that has been used to comb a man's hair.
(b) A method of pulling the trigger on a weapon.
(c) A device on a gun that allows a much smaller amount of pressure to pull the trigger.
(d) The result of a weapon being left outdoors overnight.

5. What was Washington's attitude towards America's involvement in European conflict?
(a) He did not address this problem at any point in his career.
(b) He recommended America always take the side of the English.
(c) He recommended America always take the side of the French.
(d) He recommended neutrality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Aaron Burr's official title in the USA government?

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

3. What term has changed in meaning from an inferior being to one of respect and might in the world?

4. Who did Madison feel would be exploited and cheated as a result of Hamilton's plan?

5. What was an "interview at Weehawkan"?

(see the answer key)

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