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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did John Adams see as the paradox facing the new republic?
(a) Legislating for 20 or 30 states, when all of the known legislative history had been for just one state.
(b) The new title of the republic versus its goals.
(c) Tories versus Whigs.
(d) The needs of the many outweigh the needs of a few.

2. What danger awaited the main participants in the American Revolution?
(a) Death.
(b) Three years in prison.
(c) Severe damage to their credit.
(d) Substantial fines.

3. How many people lived in the United States of America at its beginning?
(a) Two Hundred MIllion.
(b) Four Million.
(c) Five Hundred Thousand.
(d) 453.

4. What was one of the core principals of the Articles of Confederation?
(a) That it would replace the constituiton.
(b) That the Confederate States of America should be made to exist.
(c) That the colonies would never number more than twenty.
(d) That a centralized political power that operated in a faraway place could not govern citizens..

5. What did John Adams ask his wife to save for history?
(a) His favorite shoes.
(b) All of his letters.
(c) Photos of their children.
(d) The outfit he wore when he was inaugurated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two recognized methods to tell the story of the American formative years?

2. What does the author consider the years of 1787-1788 for America?

3. In its most simple terms, how did the Constitutional Convention formulate its documents?

4. Where, according to the Constitution, does sovreignity in the United States lie?

5. Who was considered to be the first President of the United States, almost unanimously by its people?

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