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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. How long did Dr. Rush try to reconcile Adams and Jefferson?
(a) A few years.
(b) A few months.
(c) A few days.
(d) A few weeks.

2. How often did Adams and Jefferson write as they aged?
(a) Every day.
(b) Occasionally.
(c) Regularly.
(d) Once a week.

3. Why did the friendship between Adams and Jefferson begin to strain severely?
(a) They were not writing enough letters.
(b) They were writing too many letters.
(c) They were in disagreement over the country's overall direction.
(d) They were members of different parties.

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

5. What did Adams discover that tested his friendship with Jefferson, after their correspondence had resumed?
(a) Criticisms that Jefferson had supported years earlier.
(b) Criticisms that Jefferson had suppoorted months earlier.
(c) Criticisms that Jefferson had made months earlier.
(d) Criticisms that Jefferson had made years earlier.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which cause did Jefferson focus on later in his life?

2. As Adams recognized, where did aristocracies exist?

3. When was the Consular Convention with France that Jefferson discussed in a letter to Adams?

4. Which role did Adams and Jefferson think education had in government?

5. How many abdications did Napoleon have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Dr. Rush and why did he help Adams and Jefferson reconcile their differences?

2. How did Abigail resume her correspondence with Jefferson?

3. How did Jefferson become involved with education in Virginia?

4. What did Adams realize about aristocracy, in Chapter 10?

5. According to Jefferson's letters in Chapter 8, what caused him to be angry at Adams?

6. How did Adams and Jefferson refer to their illnesses in the 1818 letters?

7. Why was Adams skeptical and concerned about aristocracy, in Chapter 10?

8. What did Adams and Jefferson think about the century's impact on human nature?

9. Why did Jefferson write to Adams after the election?

10. How did Jefferson respond to Adams' analysis of aristocracy, in Chapter 10?

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