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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What alarmed Adams and Jefferson about the looting by the Barbary States?
(a) The Europeans' encouragement of it.
(b) The lack of solutions to stop it.
(c) The Europeans' tolerance of it.
(d) The lack of awareness of it.

3. What impressed Adams about Jefferson?
(a) His writing ability.
(b) His oratorical ability and temperament.
(c) His writing ability and temperament.
(d) His oratorical ability.

4. What did Adams and Jefferson use to support their positions in the letters?
(a) Literature and other people's opinions.
(b) Cases from history and other people's opinions.
(c) Cases from history, other people's opinions, and literature.
(d) Cases from history and literature.

5. What year was the treaty between Algeria and the U.S.?
(a) 1796.
(b) 1784.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1788.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were Adams' negotiations with the Portuguese described in Chapter 3?

2. Besides letters, what else did Adams and Jefferson write?

3. When did Adams and Jefferson begin reading voraciously?

4. When did Jefferson join Adams and Benjamin Franklin in France?

5. How did Adams respond to Jefferson's suggestion to Congress about solving the situation with the Barbary pirates?

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