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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Poe call Longfellow?
(a) A thief.
(b) An ignoramus.
(c) A shyster.
(d) A plagiarist.

2. Why does Williams think that Burr did not get along with Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson?
(a) They did not approve of Burr's affairs with women.
(b) They campaigned against Burr when he ran for office.
(c) They favored a stronger central government than he did.
(d) They had not gotten along since the first time they had met.

3. Who is the narrator for the second half of "Poor Richard"?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) William Carlos Williams.
(c) An average American.
(d) An American Indian.

4. What does Williams say is the one thing that Americans fear more than anything else in the world?
(a) War.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Touch.

5. What does Williams say that Lincoln should be depicted as when a sculpture is made to memorialize him?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A scholar.
(c) A man.
(d) A woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Captain Landais' insubordination to John Paul Jones begin?

2. What does Williams say that Lincoln finds no relief from?

3. What does Houston do after he resigns as Governor of Tennessee?

4. What does Williams admire about Poe's choice of words?

5. What does Jacataqua ask Aaron Burr to do?

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