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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Regarding Sally Hemings, of what is Jefferson regularly accused?
(a) Having an affair with her after his wife's death and fathering several of her seven children.
(b) Not providing for her.
(c) Selling her into slavery.
(d) Being her father.

2. 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.

3. What do both Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover claim about Jefferson?
(a) His ideals in their very different ways of handling the Depression.
(b) His opinion of the women's rights movement.
(c) His ideals in their very different opinions of prohibition.
(d) His views of isolationism.

4. What does Jefferson idealize?
(a) Humanity.
(b) France.
(c) Nature.
(d) The King of England.

5. What does Jefferson owe English and Scottish firms?
(a) A pamphlet to advertise their firms.
(b) An apology.
(c) A legal agreement.
(d) 6,500 pounds.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Jefferson's nail-making laborer's are compared to what author's characters?

3. What test proves that Ellis's belief that a dalliance is completely out of character for Jefferson is incorrect?

4. Of what has Jefferson either never learned the technique or accepted the necessity?

5. How much does Jefferson believe the war will cost?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jefferson's plan to plant wheat fail?

2. What are two central features of Jefferson's personality?

3. Why does Jefferson not want to return to Philadelphia?

4. What do John Wales and Thomas Jefferson possibly have in common?

5. Why might the author be surprised by the number of people who attend the evening devoted to Jefferson?

6. What are two of Jefferson's untruths in his pamphlets?

7. How does Jefferson receive advice from Abigail Adams while he is in France?

8. What impression does Jefferson's arrival in Paris give the French?

9. What is the author's opinion about Bill Clinton's behavior with Monica Lewinsky?

10. Why does Martha force Jefferson to promise to never remarry?

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