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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Adams and Jefferson work well together at the Continental Congress?
(a) 1775.
(b) 1773.
(c) 1774.
(d) 1776.

3. Besides letters, what else did Adams and Jefferson write?
(a) Books, poems, and other documents.
(b) Poems.
(c) Other documents.
(d) Books.

4. Where did Adams and Jefferson meet?
(a) New York.
(b) Philadeplhia.
(c) Washington.
(d) Boston.

5. When did Adams move to London?
(a) Early 1785.
(b) 1786.
(c) Late 1785.
(d) Mid 1785.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long had Adams and Jefferson served as delegates in the lower house of their local legislatures when they met?

2. What alarmed Adams and Jefferson about the looting by the Barbary States?

3. How many years after the Declaration of Independence did Adams and Jefferson pass away?

4. Why was the whale fishery lowered during the War of Independence?

5. Which of the following was one of the reasons why Adams wrote the Defense of the Constitutions of the United States?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the U.S. lose a strategic link to France in 1787?

3. Which criticism of the Constitution did Adams refute, in Chapter 5?

4. How did Adams and Jefferson meet?

5. What role did Abigail Adams have in the letters?

6. What was the result of Adams' loan negotiations with the Dutch?

7. How did Adams develop a positive association with the Dutch, in Chapter 2?

8. How did Adams respond to a meeting with the ambassador of Tripoli, in Chapter 4?

9. Why did Jefferson stop writing to Abigail, in Chapter 5?

10. Where were Adams and Jefferson during the Federal Convention, and what was their opinion of it?

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