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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which documents did Adams and Jefferson want to preserve?
(a) The documents about the revolution.
(b) The documents about the elections.
(c) The documents about the Congress.
(d) The documents about their correspondence.

2. What did Adams and Jefferson think about their past differences later in life?
(a) They thought of ways they could have been avoided.
(b) They were unsure why they lasted so long.
(c) They were glad to have put them aside.
(d) They thought they could have reconciled sooner.

3. What did Adams and Jefferson think their age would help?
(a) Credibility.
(b) Preventing future wars.
(c) Posterity.
(d) Protecting Independence.

4. Which month was the last letter in Chapter 10 written?
(a) November.
(b) February.
(c) July.
(d) December.

5. What was Jefferson's opinion of Adams' philosophy of government, in Chapter 8?
(a) That he was not an elitist.
(b) That he was too complicated.
(c) That he was too elitist.
(d) That he was too vague.

6. What assumption was the starting point of Adams' work about political theory?
(a) Laws were not irreversible.
(b) Laws were irreversible.
(c) Politicians were not self-interested.
(d) Politicians were self-interested.

7. What year were the letters in Chapter 10 written?
(a) 1814.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1813.
(d) 1811.

8. When was the Consular Convention with France that Jefferson discussed in a letter to Adams?
(a) 1787.
(b) 1788.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1790.

9. When did the letters of 1820 begin?
(a) January.
(b) February.
(c) March.
(d) April.

10. What was the number of letters exchanged by Adams and Jefferson by 1820?
(a) 1,468.
(b) 1,135.
(c) 1,267.
(d) 1,024.

11. Why were few letters written between Adams and Jefferson early in their association?
(a) They did not know each other's addresses.
(b) They spoke with each other frequently.
(c) They did not have much to say.
(d) They preferred conversations.

12. How much time had passed before Abigail wrote Jefferson a letter?
(a) Three and a half years.
(b) Three years.
(c) Four and a half years.
(d) Four years.

13. Who stopped the correspondence, at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) It was mutual.
(b) Neither Abigail nor Jefferson.
(c) Abigail.
(d) Jefferson.

14. How did Adams and Jefferson think the conditions were in the eighteenth century?
(a) Changed drastically.
(b) Improved for all.
(c) Changed slightly.
(d) Improved in some ways.

15. How many letters were exchanged between Adams and Jefferson between 1796 and 1801?
(a) A couple.
(b) Several.
(c) A few.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Jefferson step down as secretary of state?

2. How did Jefferson react to Adams' election to the vice-presidency?

3. Besides the depression, what type of problems were Adams and Jefferson following in England during the post-war world after 1815?

4. Which professional school subjects were included, in the letters of Chapter 12?

5. As mentioned in a letter, which office did John Quincy Adams have before being removed by Jefferson?

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