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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pattern do his days at Monticello follow?
(a) He sits, relaxes, and thinks about his life.
(b) The prdictable pattern of an aristocratic gentleman.
(c) He spends his days in the fields watching over his slaves.
(d) They are very unpredictable.

2. About what will scholars still be arguing well into the 22nd century?
(a) Jefferson's friendship with Adams.
(b) Jefferson's debt.
(c) Jefferson's children.
(d) Jefferson's legacies.

3. Who are the last surviving Founding Fathers?
(a) Hamilton and Burr.
(b) Madison and Monroe.
(c) Jefferson and Franklin.
(d) Jefferson and Adams.

4. How does Jefferson believe emancipation would work?
(a) It would not work well at all.
(b) It would work extremely well.
(c) If the newly freed slaves are deported.
(d) It would start slowly in the northern states and then work south and west.

5. What does Jefferson expect his slave to learn while in France?
(a) The fine art of French cookery.
(b) To become fluent in French.
(c) The fine art of French painting.
(d) How to be obedient.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Jefferson permanently retire to Monticello?

2. Why is it difficult for Patsy to love her husband?

3. How is having an affair and fathering children with a slave viewed by people of Jefferson's day?

4. What is Jefferson's attitude towards slavery?

5. Why does the wife of a British minister refer to his administration as "barbaric?"

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