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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the main item on the agenda for the dinner?
2. How far apart are the participants in a duel?
3. What was one of the core principals of the Articles of Confederation?
4. What does the author think Jefferson offered Madison to get him to accept the new financial plan?
5. What was an "interview at Weehawkan"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Aaron Burr's appearance and reputation.
2. What is different about the generation of leaders and their methods of communicating and the present day methods?
3. Why do you think the author named the Preface "The Generation"?
4. What, in your opinion, were the greatest assets of the new republic?
5. Why did the duel between Burr and Hamilton effectively put a stop to dueling being accepted as a proper form of resolving arguments in the American Republic?
6. What roles did the seconds (Pendleton and Van Ness) have in the days before the duel? Describe how each one played out these roles, and how they handled their roles after the duel.
7. Why would John Adams think that his correspondence would be of interest to future generations?
8. What does the author mean when he says the American Revolution did not "devour its own children"?
9. Why do you think Jefferson was the ideal moderator for this discussion?
10. Describe what is known about the duel between Burr and Hamilton
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
America fought a war of independence, created a constitution, and began its first twenty years as a country, all with George Washington at its head. When he publishes a letter to the American people who have loved and admired him for so long that he is retiring, how do you think they felt? What impact do you think this had on the shopkeepers, tradesmen and average people who were not intimately involved in politics?
Essay Topic 2
Take the following scenarios and extrapolate possible outcomes in history: 1) Burr dies in the duel instead of Hamilton, 2) Jefferson stays in Paris for ten more years, 3) Adams and Jefferson do not renew their friendship.
Essay Topic 3
Describe Thomas Jefferson's view of government. Did his view hinder the growth of the country or enhance it?
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