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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Jefferson have a propensity?
(a) To present questions according to God's love.
(b) To compromise on certain issues.
(c) To understand that people have varying beliefs and not every issue is either black or white.
(d) To present questions as dichotomies between good and evil.

2. How long is Jefferson Governor of Virginia?
(a) Three years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Four years.
(d) One year.

3. How are Jefferson's political beliefs during those revolutionary times?
(a) Radical.
(b) Liberal.
(c) Unknown.
(d) Conservative.

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

5. Who does Jefferson sometimes revile as a drunkard and sometimes as a wise, just ruler?
(a) Queen Victoria.
(b) Mary, Queen of Scots.
(c) King Louis XVI.
(d) King George III.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who claims this president?

2. What is the reason the author gives for the contradiction between Jefferson's opinion of slavery and his owning of slaves?

3. Who are the other two ambassadors in France?

4. What does Jefferson argue should be eliminated from the Constitution of the new nation?

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

(see the answer key)

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