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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. How many contributions did Hamilton make to The Federalist Papers?
(a) Fifty-one.
(b) Forty-three.
(c) Seventy-five.
(d) One.

2. How did critics of the Constitution see that document?
(a) As a starting point for further amendments.
(b) As a poorly written document with considerable grammatical errors.
(c) As a shining beacon of the principals fought for in the Revolution.
(d) As a betrayal of the core concepts of the American Revolution.

3. What does the author compare this "Compromise of 1790" to?
(a) The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
(b) The Articles of Confederation.
(c) The Revolutionary War.
(d) The Marshall Plan.

4. What form of government was initiated by the American Revolution?
(a) Communism.
(b) Marxist and socialist.
(c) Representative government based popular sovreignty and some form of market economy fueled by the energies of individual citizens.
(d) Feudal system governed by kings, queens and lords.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state was Jefferson from?

2. What documents are available today that relate the exact words spoken by each of the dinner attendees?

3. What contingent did Madison represent in this issue?

4. What was the date of the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton?

5. At the time of the American Revolution, who else occupied North America besides the colonists?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Alexander Hamilton's appearance and reputation.

2. Why was this time--the decades immediately following America's independence from England--so vital?

3. Why was Virginia so important to the decisions of this time?

4. Why does the author feel comfortable calling the encounter between the two men "The Duel" without fear his readers will not know to which duel he is referring?

5. Describe the reputations of Burr and Hamilton. What personality traits led them to end up in a duel?

6. Describe Aaron Burr's appearance and reputation.

7. Why was the land now known as the District of Columbia a good place to locate the capital city of the new government?

8. What is different about the generation of leaders and their methods of communicating and the present day methods?

9. Why do you think such prominent men chose a duel to resolve their differences? Did it work?

10. Discuss Alexander Hamilton and how he reacted when someone did not agree with his opinions.

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