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

2. What lasts the remainder of Jefferson's and Adams' lives?
(a) Their terms in office.
(b) Their exchange of letters.
(c) The marriage of their children to one another.
(d) Their hatred for one another.

3. Jefferson is a follower of Jesus but for what does he not have respect?
(a) Muslims.
(b) Most organized religions.
(c) Catholics.
(d) Jews.

4. Of what change in the U.S. would Jefferson disapprove?
(a) The abolition of slavery.
(b) The erosion of states' rights.
(c) Efforts to protect the environment.
(d) The fight for family farms.

5. For how much does Napoleon sell the land?
(a) Three cents per acre.
(b) Three dollars per acre.
(c) One dollar per acre.
(d) One cent per acre.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jefferson's last attempt to save Monticello for his daughter and her children?

2. What does Ellis believe about the relationship of Jefferson and Sally after the story becomes so public?

3. What does Jefferson think about the white race?

4. Besides it being obvious that several of Sally Hemings' children have a white father, what makes it even more possible that they are Jefferson's?

5. What coincides with the start of Jefferson's supposed affair with Sally?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the most enduring scandal of Jefferson's life?

2. Why does Jefferson make the Louisiana Purchase?

3. Why does Jefferson retreat to Poplar Forest?

4. Why does Ellis believe this affair is out of Jefferson's character?

5. What is remarkable about the deaths of Jefferson and Adams?

6. How does Madison Hemings back the claim that Jefferson had an illicit affair with Sally Hemings?

7. How does Jefferson spend his retirement?

8. How are Jefferson's views of slavery at this point in his life?

9. How does Ellis feel about the accusations that Jefferson has an illicit affair with his slave, Sally Hemings?

10. Of what aspects of our culture and government would Jefferson approve?

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