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

2. How many years were covered, by the letters included in Chapter 11?
(a) Seven.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

3. What year was the "revolution" that the differences in the rival parties were leading to, in Chapter 8?
(a) 1801.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1799.

4. How long before their deaths did Adams and Jefferson write to each other?
(a) Two months.
(b) Four months.
(c) One month.
(d) Three months.

5. What age was Jefferson before the first academic session began at the University of Virginia?
(a) Seventy-eight.
(b) Eighty-four.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Eighty-two.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Dr. Rush try to reconcile Adams and Jefferson?

2. How did Adams and Jefferson think the conditions were in the eighteenth century?

3. Along with languages, math, natural science, medicine, and philosophy, what other subjects did the letters recommend for universities?

4. What did Adams and Jefferson think about their past differences later in life?

5. Besides the depression, what type of problems were Adams and Jefferson following in England during the post-war world after 1815?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Abigail resume her correspondence with Jefferson?

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

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

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

9. How was Adams' political work misinterpreted?

10. What suggestions for education were discussed, in Chapter 12?

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