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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 did Adams and Jefferson think the conditions were in the eighteenth century?
(a) Changed drastically.
(b) Improved in some ways.
(c) Improved for all.
(d) Changed slightly.

2. Despite the Wars, what did Adams and Jefferson think about the century?
(a) That it understood human nature well.
(b) That it understood human nature better than previous centuries.
(c) That it treated human nature better than previous centuries.
(d) That it treated human nature well.

3. When did Adams think even an aristocracy of virtue could be corrupted?
(a) If elected or unelected.
(b) If elected.
(c) If elected for long periods of time.
(d) If elected for short periods of time.

4. Where did Jefferson live after retiring from the secretary of state position?
(a) Waynesboro.
(b) Norfolk.
(c) Suffolk.
(d) Monticello.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Abigail's correspondence with Jefferson resume?

3. As mentioned in a letter, which office did John Quincy Adams have before being removed by Jefferson?

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

5. How did Adams live on his salary throughout his later years?

Short Essay Questions

1. What difference of opinion did Adams and Jefferson have about Thomas Paine's Rights of Man?

2. How was Adams' political work misinterpreted?

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

4. What tested the friendship of Adams and Jefferson in 1813?

5. What opinions did Adams and Jefferson have about the post-war conditions, in Chapter 12?

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

7. Which of Jefferson's actions upset the Adamses, in Chapter 8?

8. In Chapter 10, which source of information did Adams inform Jefferson he had given up and why?

9. What were Adams and Jefferson trying preserve, at the end of Chapter 11?

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

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