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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what are several of Jefferson's arguments based?
(a) Historical facts.
(b) The history of monarchies.
(c) Untruths.
(d) Truths.

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

3. What illustrates two central features of Jefferson's personality?
(a) His friendships with John Adams and Ben Franklin.
(b) His relationship with his children.
(c) The amended version of the "Declaration of Independence."
(d) The address called the "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms."

4. Of what is the pamphlet "A Summary of the Rights of British America" a first draft?
(a) Declaration of Treachery by King George III.
(b) Articles of the Confederation.
(c) Declaration of Independence.
(d) Constitution for the Freedom of Colonial America.

5. What serve as the most enduring record of Jefferson's life?
(a) His pamphlets.
(b) The letter Jefferson and Abigail Adams exchange.
(c) The letters Jefferson and Madison exchange.
(d) The laws he passes as Governor of Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jefferson arrive in Philadelphia for the first Continental Congress?

2. Where does Jefferson attend college?

3. Who is Sally Hemings?

4. What does the author find surprising about an evening devoted to Jefferson in 1993?

5. Why do many men of Jefferson's time refuse to own slaves?

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