Introduction

Introduction

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17 Qs

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Introduction

Introduction

Assessment

Quiz

History

9th - 12th Grade

Easy

Created by

MONICA ALVAREZ DE LUNA

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17 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

(Preface question) Aaron Burr was the grandson of America’s greatest evangelical theologian, __________.

George Whitfield

Jonathan Edwards

Charles Finney

Jonathan Dickinson

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

(Preface question) John Adams’ Federalist running mate in 1800, __________ served for fifteen years as the president of the Bible Society of Charleston.

Elbridge Gerry

Aaron Burr

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

George Clinton

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

They (Jefferson/Adams) could write like angels and scheme like demons. Trained as attorneys, they thoroughly mastered that craft only to turn their formidable legal skills toward statecraft. Both men preferred __________ to law or politics. But the year was 1776, and their respective colonies—North America’s two most populous British domains—had sent them to Philadelphia as delegates to the Second Continental Congress.

medicine

science

writing

farming

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Standing shoulder to shoulder with delegates from the thirteen self-proclaimed sovereign states on that first Fourth of July, John Adams of Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia signed the subtly eloquent document that their committee had crafted. Among the delegates, __________ had argued longest and most effectively for independence.

Jefferson

Franklin

Adams

Sherman

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

__________'s celebratory painting of the signing ceremony puts Adams and Jefferson front and center, with Benjamin Franklin prominently at their side and the other two committee members obscurely in the rear. Lanky and lean with an unruly sandy-red mane, Jefferson at a youthful thirty-three stood head and shoulders above the balding, rotund, but square-shouldered Adams —then a prematurely old forty.

Gilbert Stuart

Benjamin West

John Trumbull

Charles Wilson Peal

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Regarding his own portrait, __________ once commented, “He should be painted looking like a short thick archbishop” and, writing from Philadelphia in November 1775, had characterized himself as “a morose philosopher and a surly politician.

John Adams

Roger Sherman

Benjamin Franklin

Robert Livingston

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

At over six feet two inches tall, with high cheekbones and deep-set eyes, Jefferson towered over most men of his time even when he __________—which he often did, especially when seated.

clumsy

slump

lean

slouched

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