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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Jefferson's response to Abigail's correspondence, in Chapter 8?
(a) He was surprised.
(b) He was happy.
(c) He was confused.
(d) He was not surprised.

2. What did Jefferson think the electorate had the ability to select?
(a) The good and wise.
(b) The wise and experienced.
(c) The good, wise, and experienced.
(d) The good and experienced.

3. As mentioned in Chapter 11, why did Adams and Jefferson want the American people to understand the Revolution?
(a) To remember the sacrifices made.
(b) To improve the representative form of government.
(c) To understand the price of freedom.
(d) To appreciate representative government.

4. How did Jefferson react to Adams' election to the vice-presidency?
(a) He was surprised.
(b) He had no reaction.
(c) He was pleased.
(d) He was confused.

5. As mentioned in a letter, which office did John Quincy Adams have before being removed by Jefferson?
(a) Commissioner of bankruptcy.
(b) Trade commissioner.
(c) Security commissioner.
(d) Commissioner of finance.

6. Along with languages, math, natural science, medicine, and philosophy, what other subjects did the letters recommend for universities?
(a) Law and political economy.
(b) Law, government, and political economy.
(c) Government and political economy.
(d) Government and law.

7. Which political concern did Adams have, in Chapter 10?
(a) How to control aristocracy.
(b) How to change aristocracy.
(c) How to end aristocracy.
(d) How to discourage aristocracy.

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

9. What did Adams and Jefferson think their age would help?
(a) Credibility.
(b) Protecting Independence.
(c) Preventing future wars.
(d) Posterity.

10. How interested in politics were Adams and Jefferson later in life?
(a) Neither Adams nor Jefferson stayed interested in politics.
(b) Jefferson stayed interested in politics, Adams did not.
(c) Both Adams and Jefferson stayed interested in poiltics.
(d) Adams stayed interested in politics, Jefferson did not.

11. When was the Consular Convention with France that Jefferson discussed in a letter to Adams?
(a) 1788.
(b) 1790.
(c) 1787.
(d) 1789.

12. How did Adams and Jefferson approach politics in their letters, in Chapter 9?
(a) They mostly tried to avoid it.
(b) They discussed it frequently.
(c) They did not discuss it at all.
(d) They only tried to avoid it in the initial letters after the correspondence has resumed.

13. Besides the depression, what type of problems were Adams and Jefferson following in England during the post-war world after 1815?
(a) Economic.
(b) Social, economic, and political.
(c) Political.
(d) Social.

14. Which cause did Jefferson focus on later in his life?
(a) Updating the Declaration.
(b) Supporting new presidential candidates.
(c) Updating the Constitution.
(d) Establishing the University of Virginia.

15. How did Adams and Jefferson remember their revolutionary days in their later letters?
(a) Infrequently.
(b) Carefully.
(c) Fondly.
(d) Frequently.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many letters were exchanged between Adams and Jefferson between 1796 and 1801?

2. What year did the letters in Chapter 9 begin?

3. How many years were covered, by the letters included in Chapter 11?

4. Which state's Compromise of 1820 concerned Adams and Jefferson, in Chapter 12?

5. As Adams recognized, where did aristocracies exist?

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