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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Jefferson refer to his slaves?
(a) As his "extended family."
(b) As the bane of his existence.
(c) As his property.
(d) As members of society.

2. What is remarkable about the transfer of power from one president to the next?
(a) That it happens at all.
(b) That it happens so quietly.
(c) That it happens so quickly.
(d) That it happens to violently.

3. What would Jefferson disapprove of since his death?
(a) The emancipation of slaves.
(b) The changes to the Declaration of Independence.
(c) The separation of church and state.
(d) Many of the changes that have occurred.

4. What is Jefferson's most successful financial enterprise?
(a) Making wagon wheels.
(b) Growing wheat.
(c) Nail making.
(d) Growing tobacco.

5. What did Jefferson never mean for his writings to do?
(a) To encourage the abolition of slavery.
(b) To justify wars.
(c) They have been used to justify racial equality.
(d) To encourage illicit affairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ellis feel about presentism?

2. Where is Jefferson the most popular historical figure?

3. What do both Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover claim about Jefferson?

4. In what tradition does Jefferson regard all political power as inherently corrupting?

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

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