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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America?
(a) William Pierce
(b) George Washington
(c) Thomas Jefferson
(d) John Adams

2. Where was the boarding school in which Adams enrolled his sons located?
(a) Passy
(b) Orleans
(c) Provence
(d) Nice

3. What does Adams call Washington in a letter written a year earlier that surfaces and is printed in a newspaper?
(a) Derelict
(b) Anarchist
(c) Devotee
(d) Apostate

4. Whose friendship is especially valued by both John and Abigail?
(a) Marie Antoinette
(b) Marquis de Lafayette
(c) Thomas Jefferson
(d) Benjamin Franklin

5. What did the Adamses find when they returned to Boston?
(a) A town they did not recognize
(b) Mayhem and confusion
(c) A huge homecoming celebration
(d) Hostility toward the family

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Adams say that Vice President is the only position he will accept?

2. What is the name of Jefferson's Virginia home?

3. What morbid premonition of Abigail's comes true in July of 1777?

4. To whom is the Adams family farm rented?

5. What is Abigail's perception of New York?

(see the answer key)

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