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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. When did Adams and Jefferson work well together at the Continental Congress?
(a) 1774.
(b) 1775.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1773.
2. What age was Jefferson when he met Adams?
(a) Thirty six.
(b) Thirty four.
(c) Thirty two.
(d) Thirty eight.
3. Which of the following was one of the reasons why Adams wrote the Defense of the Constitutions of the United States?
(a) To prove that the Constitution was only effective in the U.S.
(b) To prove that the U.S. did not copy England's style of government.
(c) To prove his involvement with the writing of the Constitution.
(d) To prove that other countries should not try to imitate the U.S.'s style of government.
4. How long were Adams and Jefferson apart before they met on August 7th of 1784?
(a) Four and a half years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Four years.
(d) Five and a half years.
5. Written by Adams, when were the Novanglus letters published anonymously?
(a) February, 1775.
(b) February, 1774.
(c) January, 1775.
(d) January, 1774.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which position did Jefferson have when Adams was vice-president?
2. What happened to the interest payments on the debt that America had acquired during the war to France?
3. What did Vergennes lend to the U.S.?
4. What type of a letter did Adams write after meeting with the ambassador of Tripoli, in Chapter 4?
5. Where did Adams travel as a Diplomat in 1778?
Short Essay Questions
1. For which qualities did Adams and Jefferson respect each other?
2. What role did Abigail Adams have in the letters?
3. How did Adams respond to a meeting with the ambassador of Tripoli, in Chapter 4?
4. How did Adams and Jefferson meet?
5. Why are the Federalists no longer a political party?
6. How and why did Adams leave his position as diplomat in London?
7. How did the U.S. lose a strategic link to France in 1787?
8. Which two options did Adams and Jefferson give to Congress about dealing with the Barbary pirates, in Chapter 4?
9. What was Adams doing to gain valuable diplomatic experience from 1776 to 1778, as Jefferson prepared to govern Virginia?
10. Why did Jefferson stop writing to Abigail, in Chapter 5?
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