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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 much was the Dutch loan that Adams secured?
(a) Four hundred thousand dollars.
(b) Three hundred thousand dollars.
(c) Two hundred thousand dollars.
(d) One hundred thousand dollars.

2. Why was Portugal open to American overtures?
(a) They resented Britain's politics.
(b) They resented Britain's economic acts.
(c) They resented Britain's policies with the U.S.
(d) They resented Britain's navigation acts.

3. When did Jefferson's wife pass away?
(a) 1780.
(b) 1782.
(c) 1781.
(d) 1779.

4. How much of a concern was Prussia for Adams and Jefferson between 1785 and 1786?
(a) No concern.
(b) A minor concern.
(c) The only concern.
(d) A major concern.

5. Which letters include less philosophical topics, such as whale-oil and tobacco contracts?
(a) The letters during 1801.
(b) The letters both before and after 1801.
(c) The letters before 1801.
(d) The letters after 1801.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Jefferson a governor?

2. What was the name of Jefferson's daughter that was sent to England to study with Abigail?

3. Why did Adams and Jefferson have little tolerance for moderates?

4. How was Jefferson received in the England court as he tried to secure a commercial treaty?

5. As mentioned in Chapter 1, which of Adams' skills stood out to Jefferson?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Adams doing to gain valuable diplomatic experience from 1776 to 1778, as Jefferson prepared to govern Virginia?

2. How did Adams respond to Jefferson's appointment as a diplomat in France?

3. How did Adams and Jefferson meet?

4. What was the result of Adams' loan negotiations with the Dutch?

5. How and why did Adams leave his position as diplomat in London?

6. Which criticism of the Constitution did Adams refute, in Chapter 5?

7. Why did Jefferson stop writing to Abigail, in Chapter 5?

8. What did Adams caution Jefferson about, at the end of Chapter 3?

9. What was the irony of the European position on the Barbary pirates?

10. How was the Constitution written?

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