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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. With what disease is Nabby diagnosed?
(a) Diabetes
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) Breast cancer
(d) Cirrhosis
2. In what state does Adams find Washington when he arrives?
(a) A mosquito-infested swamp
(b) Bleak and abandoned
(c) Glittering in the sun
(d) Barren and dry
3. What illness strikes many, including Washington, in May of 1790?
(a) Influenza
(b) Scarlet fever
(c) Tuberculosis
(d) Polio
4. What did the Adamses find when they returned to Boston?
(a) Hostility toward the family
(b) A huge homecoming celebration
(c) Mayhem and confusion
(d) A town they did not recognize
5. Who wrote A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America?
(a) William Pierce
(b) George Washington
(c) John Adams
(d) Thomas Jefferson
6. What near-fatal illness does Abigail contract?
(a) Scarlet fever
(b) Typhoid fever
(c) Malaria
(d) Influenza
7. Which city has hopes of becoming the country's permanent capital?
(a) Charleston
(b) Philadelphia
(c) Boston
(d) New York
8. How many children did King George III of England have?
(a) 5
(b) 15
(c) 10
(d) 7
9. ____________________ is eulogized as "first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen."
(a) Washington
(b) Adams
(c) Franklin
(d) Jefferson
10. What is Abigail's perception of New York?
(a) Invigorating
(b) Dull
(c) Cultured
(d) Intellectual
11. Who did Adams fear would lead a military coup and return the country to British rule?
(a) Hamilton
(b) Pickering
(c) Jay
(d) Jefferson
12. Who led the anti-American initiatives in England?
(a) Loyalists
(b) Sentimentalists
(c) Independents
(d) Tories
13. Of what disease does Abigail die?
(a) Cancer
(b) Malaria
(c) Typhoid fever
(d) Tuberculosis
14. Who is Sally Hemings?
(a) The housekeeper at Stoneyfield
(b) Jefferson's slave with whom he reportedly had an intimate relationship for many years
(c) Nabby's best friend
(d) Abigail's new dressmaker
15. What does Adams call Washington in a letter written a year earlier that surfaces and is printed in a newspaper?
(a) Derelict
(b) Devotee
(c) Anarchist
(d) Apostate
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Dr. Rush call Adams and Jefferson?
2. What is the name of the Adams family farm in Quincy?
3. Who led the opposition effort against Adams?
4. Of what disease does Charles Adams die?
5. What event takes American by surprise in 1789?
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