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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was James Madison at the time of this dinner meeting?
(a) 39.
(b) 82.
(c) 58.
(d) 23.

2. Which state did Madison believe would suffer the most injustice under assumption?
(a) Texas.
(b) Rhode Island.
(c) New York.
(d) Virginia.

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

4. What are the two recognized methods to tell the story of the American formative years?
(a) Tories and Whigs.
(b) Communisim and Democracy.
(c) Pure Republicanism and the Jeffersonian interpretations.
(d) Washington and Adams.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, how did the creation of a separate American nation occur?

2. How long did it take Hamilton to write the Report on Public Credit?

3. An affair of honor should involve only what type of charges?

4. On the subject of Hamilton's financial proposal, what was the main issue?

5. At the time of the American Revolution, what was the most powerful military force in the world?

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