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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What topic did Jefferson refuse to debate with Adams?
(a) Monarchies
(b) Indiscretions
(c) Taxes
(d) Slavery

2. What does Dr. Rush call Adams and Jefferson?
(a) The salt of the earth
(b) America's finest
(c) The North and South Poles of the American Revolution
(d) Two old fools

3. Who surprisingly has much in common with John Adams?
(a) The Pope
(b) King Louis XVI
(c) King George III
(d) The Marquis de Lafayette

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

5. What was Adams' legacy to his grandchildren?
(a) The early bird gets the worm.
(b) What goes around comes around.
(c) Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.
(d) Walk softly but carry a big stick.

6. Who led the anti-American initiatives in England?
(a) Tories
(b) Independents
(c) Loyalists
(d) Sentimentalists

7. Who becomes a threat to U.S. shipping and trade?
(a) Somali pirates
(b) French navy
(c) British port authority
(d) Barbary pirates

8. How does Thomas Jefferson now view Adams?
(a) As presidential material
(b) As the smartest man in the government
(c) As his best friend
(d) As an embarrassment

9. Who led the opposition effort against Adams?
(a) John Pickering
(b) Aaron Burr
(c) Alexander Hamilton
(d) Thomas Jefferson

10. What near-fatal illness does Abigail contract?
(a) Typhoid fever
(b) Influenza
(c) Scarlet fever
(d) Malaria

11. What is the name of the Adams family farm in Quincy?
(a) Stoneyfield
(b) Monticello
(c) Valleyview
(d) Belle Monde

12. After learning of his son, Charles', indiscriminate behavior, what does Adams do?
(a) Gets him psychological help
(b) Gives him money
(c) Sends him to a sanitorium
(d) Renounces him

13. What was a main topic of discussion among New Englanders during 1814?
(a) Shipping prices
(b) Secession from the union
(c) Crop prices
(d) Maritime pirates

14. In what state does Adams find Washington when he arrives?
(a) Glittering in the sun
(b) A mosquito-infested swamp
(c) Bleak and abandoned
(d) Barren and dry

15. Who is William Steuben Smith?
(a) The Secretary of the Interior
(b) Adams' secretary
(c) The new Secretary of State
(d) The Adamses first grandchild

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Sally Hemings?

2. How many children did King George III of England have?

3. Who did Adams fear would lead a military coup and return the country to British rule?

4. What illness strikes many, including Washington, in May of 1790?

5. What did many people do at Washington's departure?

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