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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a key facet of Jefferson's personality?
(a) His abhorence of slavery.
(b) His sense of humor.
(c) His lifelong avoidance of conflict.
(d) His fatherly love.

2. What does Jefferson study in college?
(a) Interpersonal Communications.
(b) Law.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Business.

3. Why is little known about Jefferson's early history?
(a) All records are destroyed in a fire in Shadwell, Virginia.
(b) He has his records destroyed to protect his family.
(c) His early life is fairly inconsequential.
(d) No records are kept of his early life.

4. What is the reason the author gives for the contradiction between Jefferson's opinion of slavery and his owning of slaves?
(a) He is against slavery but owns them because he feels pressure to do so.
(b) He believes in human dignity and freedom, as long as it does not conflict with his own wealth and comfort.
(c) He believes in human dignity for those that are of European descent, as long as they do not own slaves.
(d) He enjoys an easier life by owning slaves, therefore he is pro-slavery.

5. Why does the audience not ask questions regarding Jefferson's slave ownership and relationship with Sally Hemings?
(a) They are too embarrassed.
(b) They are unsure whether it is appropriate to discuss these issues.
(c) They are too timid.
(d) They are too well-mannered.

Short Answer Questions

1. How would Jefferson have gone through life, if his pamphlet had not been published?

2. Of what is the pamphlet "A Summary of the Rights of British America" a first draft?

3. How does Ellis feel about presentism?

4. What issue does Ellis dismiss as "slanderous assaults?"

5. On what are several of Jefferson's arguments based?

(see the answer key)

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