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

2. What is the Boston Tea Party?
(a) A fundraiser for the city of Boston.
(b) A tea store in Boston.
(c) A prank by a group of hooligans.
(d) A gathering of colonists to peacefully protest British rule.

3. Why is Jefferson inconsolable and cries every night for six weeks?
(a) His mother dies.
(b) His daughter dies.
(c) His wife dies.
(d) His father dies.

4. Like many Virginia aristocrats, what does Jefferson equate to land?
(a) Struggle.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Growth.
(d) Slaves.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jefferson know about some of the revisionist history he writes?

3. What does Jefferson idealize?

4. Who does Polly marry?

5. Regarding Sally Hemings, of what is Jefferson regularly accused?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Jefferson's ideal Utopian society?

3. How is the relationship between Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson?

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

5. What do Polly and her mother have in common?

6. How does Martha Wales Jefferson die?

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

8. What happens to Virginia under Jefferson's guidance?

9. What story does Jefferson glamorize to benefit himself?

10. What two decisions shape his entire life?

(see the answer keys)

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