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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which French Minister favored Franklin to Adams?
(a) The Comte de Vergennes
(b) Count Rochambeau
(c) The Marquis de Lafayette
(d) The Comte de Passy

2. What does John find it difficult to do when writing to Abigail?
(a) Ending each letter
(b) Tell her he is staying longer
(c) Professing his love
(d) Betraying his melancholy

3. What precipitates Abigail's sailing to London?
(a) She and John are going on a second honeymoon
(b) John is appointed Ambassador to the British Court
(c) John is ill and needs her
(d) She wants Nabby to have an English education

4. How old was Benjamin Franklin at the time of the Second Continental Congress?
(a) 75
(b) 65
(c) 70
(d) 50

5. To what city does Adams go to attend another session of Congress?
(a) Boston
(b) Washington
(c) Philadelphia
(d) Baltimore

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of John Adams' wife?

2. What did the people of Boston call an event where five citizens were killed by British soldiers?

3. What does Adams do when the ship is beached for repairs in Spain?

4. "Glorious news" of what event arrives while Adams is in Holland?

5. Why did Benjamin Franklin go to Canada during this time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Adams just as he is about to give up his life as a public servant for the government?

2. What were the circumstances of the actual signing of the Declaration of Independence?

3. How did Adams acclimate himself to Holland?

4. How does Adams react when his ship is wrecked in a storm and he must be repaired in Spain.

5. What was Adams' overall opinion of the First Continental Congress?

6. What historic event severely wounded Adams' law practice in Boston?

7. Why did Adams move to Holland?

8. Who did Adams marry?

9. What were Adams' three main objectives for the Second Continental Congress?

10. Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" went a long way to rally New Englanders to war. Explain how John Adams found weakness in Paine and his document.

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