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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jefferson know about some of the revisionist history he writes?
(a) It is inaccurate.
(b) It is true.
(c) It is just.
(d) It is false.

2. Regarding Sally Hemings, of what is Jefferson regularly accused?
(a) Having an affair with her after his wife's death and fathering several of her seven children.
(b) Selling her into slavery.
(c) Being her father.
(d) Not providing for her.

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

4. How does Jefferson arrive in Paris?
(a) In a parade.
(b) In an elaborate, handcrafted, phaeton that is fancier than the one that conveyed him to Philadelphia.
(c) Secretly in the night.
(d) In a simple two-wheeled carriage.

5. How does Jefferson arrive in Philadelphia for the first Continental Congress?
(a) He arrives by horseback, as do most people at this time.
(b) He arrives in an opulent carriage with three slaves outfitted in elaborate costumes.
(c) He arrives secretly in the night, due to the high security risk.
(d) He arrives excited and ready to lead the nation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is probably the most beloved and admired of American presidents?

2. Who is Sally Hemings?

3. Who is raising Maria, known as Polly, Jefferson?

4. What does the Virginia Assembly do, regarding Jefferson's reaction to the invasion by Benedict Arnold's troops?

5. How long is Jefferson Governor of Virginia?

(see the answer key)

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