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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say was the place where Washington most liked to be?
(a) In the field with his troops.
(b) Home.
(c) In the capital.
(d) Exploring the frontier.

2. When does Houston defeat Santa Ana?
(a) During the Revolutionary War.
(b) During the battle for Texan independence.
(c) During World War I.
(d) During the Civil War.

3. What does Jacataqua ask Aaron Burr to do?
(a) Hunt with her.
(b) Fight. with her.
(c) Sleep with her.
(d) Eat with her.

4. What does Williams say that American families cheat their daughters out of by trying to frighten them into delaying the loss of their virginity?
(a) Romance.
(b) Dignity.
(c) Love.
(d) Sex.

5. What reason does the narrator give for believing that Americans have trouble understanding their own national character?
(a) Americans only like to think about the future.
(b) Americans do not have any character left, only emptiness.
(c) Americans think that all Americans are Native Americans.
(d) Americans do not like to admit that they have origins and a history.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the barge that is towing John Paul Jones' ship?

2. What feature does Williams say most shapes Edgar Allen Poe's work?

3. Who does Lincoln say he owes everything he is or ever will be to?

4. What event has distracted historians from telling the whole story about Burr?

5. Why does Williams think that Burr did not get along with Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson?

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