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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did the letters in Chapter 9 begin?
(a) 1810.
(b) 1813.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1811.

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

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

4. Which one of the following was not provided as a reason for Jefferson's monetary issues?
(a) Inflation.
(b) Overspending.
(c) Debts.
(d) Lending.

5. In Chapter 10, how was Adams' outlook on the future dealings with aristocracy?
(a) He was concerned.
(b) He was uncertain.
(c) He was optimisitc.
(d) He was skeptical.

6. 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.

7. Which professional school subjects were included, in the letters of Chapter 12?
(a) Military and naval skill, architecture, fine arts, and agriculture.
(b) Military and naval skill, architecture, fine arts, and accounting.
(c) Military and naval skill, architecture, geology, and agriculture.
(d) Military and naval skill, astronomy, fine arts, and agriculture.

8. When did Jefferson establish the University of Virginia?
(a) 1821.
(b) 1819.
(c) 1820.
(d) 1822.

9. How did Jefferson react to Adams' election to the vice-presidency?
(a) He had no reaction.
(b) He was confused.
(c) He was surprised.
(d) He was pleased.

10. As explained in the letters of Chapter 12, what kind of teaching load was preferred for professors?
(a) Light to moderate.
(b) Light.
(c) Moderate to heavy.
(d) Moderate.

11. How did Abigail's correspondence with Jefferson resume?
(a) Abigail wrote Jefferson a letter separate from her husband's letters.
(b) Jefferson wrote Abigail a letter.
(c) Adams informed Jefferson in a letter to resume writing to his wife.
(d) Abigail added a postscript to one of her husband's letters.

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

13. What war was ongoing as Adams and Jefferson began to write to each other again?
(a) The First Seminole War.
(b) The First Barbary War.
(c) The Second Barbary War.
(d) The War of 1812.

14. Overall, how did Adams and Jefferson view the world?
(a) As generating only pleasure.
(b) As generating more pleasure than pain.
(c) As generating pleasure in order to replace pain.
(d) As generating equal amounts of pleasure and pain.

15. As mentioned in Chapter 11, why did Adams and Jefferson want the American people to understand the Revolution?
(a) To improve the representative form of government.
(b) To understand the price of freedom.
(c) To appreciate representative government.
(d) To remember the sacrifices made.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many differences were resolved between the Adamses and Jefferson, by the end of Chapter 8?

2. Which year was the last letter in Chapter 11 written?

3. When did Abigail Adams pass away from typhoid fever?

4. Which documents did Adams and Jefferson want to preserve?

5. What did Adams and Jefferson blame Napoleon for?

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