Any of you have an advice reading Biography of John Adams by David McCullough?

Because I want to do good on my multiple choice test by the end of the summer. And the book has like 600 plus pages. I take notes by reading a page and writing about a page about it. What would be the shortest way of taking notes? Since I take AP US History my teacher will be asking trick questions. I really need help. I am just borrowing the book.Any of you have an advice reading Biography of John Adams by David McCullough?
600 pages and all summer to do it? Doesn't sound too difficult. If you haven't got the book for long, ask for it at your local library, they will get it in for you from another library if they don't have it in their own collection.





Read the whole book, start to finish.





Then read it again, making notes as you go (not on the book pages obviously, so it doesn't matter if your are borrowing the book). Take notes of all the things which seem important in a big way, his birth, schooling, early adulthood, travels, marriage, onto his early important cases, and so on through his life.





Note on a second pad all the interesting things. All the things which are impressions of the man, rather than facts.





If you need to, read the book again after that, and all the facts and all the impressions will really be ready for you when you need to answer the questions.





After all, it's only multiply choice, you don't need to write essays or dissertations on the subject, so it shouldn't be too difficult at all.Any of you have an advice reading Biography of John Adams by David McCullough?
Don't call your teacher the fool he is. This would be a fine book to use in an essay, a good secondary text for a survey course, but as a basis of a multiple choice test?





It'll only be able to cover major points, so the reality is you could read a ten page biography of Adams and do just as well on the test. OK, that's most likely not entirely true, he'll have few to just trip you up. I'd suggest taking short notes, write down the major career changes, a time line, make sure to take some notes on the personal stuff as well as the politics. Figure he'll throw in at least one on something like a description of Adam's farm.





By short notes, I mean don't analyze every page. Just note down the major events, personal and public. What he did prior to politics, who else served with him, etc..








Here are some I can see being asked





What state was he from?


What did his father do for a living?


Where did he get his education?


What business was he in, before politics?


What was his role in the Boston Massacre?


What did he do during the war?


What was the name of the peace treaty he helped negotiate?


What offices did he hold, in what order?


When he was vice-president, who was president?


What political party was he in?


What major piece of controversial legislation did he sign?


Who succeeded him in office?


etc





Just look out for major things that could be asked. On a 600 page book, they can't be overly specific.

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