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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ellis call flexibility and others might call hypocrisy?
(a) His relationship with women other than his wife.
(b) His opinion on slavery.
(c) His relationship with King George III.
(d) Jefferson's dexterity to tailor his writings for a specific audience.

2. What test proves that Ellis's belief that a dalliance is completely out of character for Jefferson is incorrect?
(a) A DNA test.
(b) A Regence test.
(c) A DRA test.
(d) A drug test.

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

4. What governmental position does Alexander Hamilton hold?
(a) Secretary of State.
(b) Secretary of the Treasury.
(c) Surgeon General.
(d) Secretary of the Interior.

5. For what are Betty Hemings' grandchildren mistaken?
(a) Jefferson's children.
(b) Caucasians.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Hispanic.

6. Of what has Jefferson either never learned the technique or accepted the necessity?
(a) Debate.
(b) Arguing his cause.
(c) Compromise.
(d) Childrearing.

7. How would Jefferson have gone through life, if his pamphlet had not been published?
(a) As a well-known lawyer.
(b) Unnoticed.
(c) An American ambassador.
(d) As a Virginia politician.

8. When it comes to Jefferson's writing, what does he not like?
(a) To write persuasively.
(b) To be edited.
(c) To write political pamphlets.
(d) To have his work accepted.

9. Who first exposes Jefferson to a companionate marriage?
(a) John and Abigail Adams.
(b) George and Martha Washington.
(c) James and Dolley Madison.
(d) Ben and Debrah Franklin.

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

11. What is the end result of this planting?
(a) A successful harvest.
(b) Failure.
(c) Plentiful fields.
(d) The purchasing of more slaves to harvest the crop.

12. Why does Jefferson retire to Monticello by 1794?
(a) To get away from John Adams.
(b) To spend time with his daughters.
(c) To heal his considerable political wounds.
(d) To work on the design for a new home.

13. Who is raising Maria, known as Polly, Jefferson?
(a) Slaves in Virginia.
(b) Ben Franklin.
(c) John Adams.
(d) John Wales.

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

15. What does Jefferson become, very publicly, while an ambassador in France?
(a) A Francophile.
(b) A hypocrite.
(c) A Democrat.
(d) A Christian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jefferson's most successful financial enterprise?

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

3. How many children do Patsy and her husband have?

4. What happens to Martha Wales Jefferson several months after the birth of their daughter Lucy Elizabeth?

5. What affect does Jefferson's term as Governor of Virginia have on the state?

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