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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Adams do in response to Jefferson's presidential win?
(a) He appointed a number of Federalists to office while Jefferson was president.
(b) He appointed a number of Federalists to office before Jefferson became president.
(c) He appointed one Federalist to office while Jefferson was President.
(d) He appointed one Federalist to office before Jefferson became president.

2. Which role did Adams and Jefferson think education had in government?
(a) They thought education was essential to good government.
(b) They thought good government could exist permanently without education.
(c) They thought good government was impossible without education.
(d) They thought education was the main ingredient of good government.

3. Besides the depression, what type of problems were Adams and Jefferson following in England during the post-war world after 1815?
(a) Social.
(b) Economic.
(c) Social, economic, and political.
(d) Political.

4. When did Jefferson step down as secretary of state?
(a) 1794.
(b) 1792.
(c) 1791.
(d) 1793.

5. What was Dr. Rush's view of the estrangement of Adams and Jefferson?
(a) He thought it was necessary for the two to become better friends.
(b) He thought it was necessary for the two to understand each other better.
(c) He thought it was a tragedy.
(d) He thought it was most likely irreconcilable.

6. How interested in politics were Adams and Jefferson later in life?
(a) Neither Adams nor Jefferson stayed interested in politics.
(b) Both Adams and Jefferson stayed interested in poiltics.
(c) Adams stayed interested in politics, Jefferson did not.
(d) Jefferson stayed interested in politics, Adams did not.

7. As Adams recognized, where did aristocracies exist?
(a) All places.
(b) Most places.
(c) Not very many places.
(d) Only certain places.

8. When were the public school systems set up in Virginia?
(a) The 1860s.
(b) The 1870s.
(c) The 1890s.
(d) The 1880s.

9. 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 thought they could have reconciled sooner.
(c) They were glad to have put them aside.
(d) They were unsure why they lasted so long.

10. Which future system(s) did Jefferson have high hopes for?
(a) Public education, but not science.
(b) Public education and science.
(c) Science, but not public education.
(d) Neither public education nor science.

11. What year did Adams and Jefferson become sick?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1819.
(c) 1817.
(d) 1816.

12. Which year was the last letter in Chapter 11 written?
(a) 1814.
(b) 1815.
(c) 1816.
(d) 1817.

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

14. What happened to the letter that Jefferson wrote to congratulate Adams when the election was over, before the results were known?
(a) It was intercepted by Madison.
(b) It was never mailed.
(c) It was read by Adams quickly.
(d) It was lost in the mail.

15. What year was the "revolution" that the differences in the rival parties were leading to, in Chapter 8?
(a) 1798.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1801.
(d) 1799.

Short Answer Questions

1. What month did Jefferson's daughter pass away?

2. Along with languages, math, natural science, medicine, and philosophy, what other subjects did the letters recommend for universities?

3. Which one of the following was not included in the description of Dr. Rush?

4. What year did both Adams and Jefferson pass away?

5. How many pieces of "Homespun" did Adams send in a letter to Jefferson?

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