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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were Adams' negotiations with the Portuguese described in Chapter 3?
(a) Expected.
(b) Promising.
(c) Brief.
(d) Extensive.

2. How long had Adams and Jefferson served as delegates in the lower house of their local legislatures when they met?
(a) One year.
(b) A few years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Many years.

3. Along with Adams and Jefferson, how many other people were on the committee assigned to write the Declaration of Independence?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

4. How much was the Dutch loan that Adams secured?
(a) Three hundred thousand dollars.
(b) One hundred thousand dollars.
(c) Four hundred thousand dollars.
(d) Two hundred thousand dollars.

5. At Adams' request, what did Jefferson send during negotiations with the Portuguese?
(a) A vague list of commodities that could be exchanged.
(b) A detailed list of commodities that could be exchanged.
(c) A list of three commodities that could be exchanged.
(d) A list of two commodities that could be exchanged.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Adams caution Jefferson about at the end of Chapter 3?

2. When did Adams and Jefferson meet to talk about a new loan for the U.S.?

3. How old was Adams when he met Jefferson?

4. When did Richard Henry Lee propose the resolution that Congress should secede from Britain?

5. What year was the treaty between Algeria and the U.S.?

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