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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has happened with Thomas Jefferson's popularity over time?
(a) It has decreased.
(b) It has plummeted.
(c) It has increased.
(d) It has stayed the same.

2. Of what does Ellis feel it is unfair to accuse a man of Jefferson's time regarding women?
(a) Family.
(b) Nudity.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Sexism.

3. What is a key facet of Jefferson's personality?
(a) His lifelong avoidance of conflict.
(b) His fatherly love.
(c) His sense of humor.
(d) His abhorence of slavery.

4. What did Jefferson never mean for his writings to do?
(a) To justify wars.
(b) To encourage the abolition of slavery.
(c) To encourage illicit affairs.
(d) They have been used to justify racial equality.

5. What are John Adam's final words?
(a) "Thomas Jefferson is no more."
(b) "Thomas Jefferson lives."
(c) "The Founding Fathers live."
(d) "The Founding Fathers are no more."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Patsy marry?

2. Why could those listening to his first address not understand him?

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

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

5. How would Jefferson feel about urbanization?

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