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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How would Jefferson have gone through life, if his pamphlet had not been published?
(a) Unnoticed.
(b) As a well-known lawyer.
(c) As a Virginia politician.
(d) An American ambassador.

2. What does the author find surprising about an evening devoted to Jefferson in 1993?
(a) 40 people attend, rather than the estimated 400.
(b) The audience is very argumentative about Jefferson's stand on slavery.
(c) The audience has little respect for Jefferson as a president.
(d) 400 people attend, rather than the estimated 40.

3. What happens to Martha Wales Jefferson several months after the birth of their daughter Lucy Elizabeth?
(a) She dies.
(b) She becomes ill but recovers.
(c) She tells Jefferson she is not having anymore of his children.
(d) She becomes pregnant with their fourth child.

4. Who is Sally Hemings?
(a) Martha Wales' sister.
(b) A slave Jefferson inherited from his wife's family.
(c) Jefferson's neice.
(d) Jefferson's wife.

5. What is presentism?
(a) To present false information about an issue or historical period.
(b) The obsession with requiring gifts and other presents.
(c) The tendency to apply current social and ethical standard to the behavior of past eras.
(d) Not believing that events in the past have taken place; being completely focused on present-day issues and topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jefferson sometimes revile as a drunkard and sometimes as a wise, just ruler?

2. How many slaves does Jefferson own at this point in his life?

3. Like many Virginia aristocrats, what does Jefferson equate to land?

4. What does Ellis call flexibility and others might call hypocrisy?

5. What does Jefferson become, very publicly, while an ambassador in France?

(see the answer key)

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