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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What illustrates two central features of Jefferson's personality?
(a) The amended version of the "Declaration of Independence."
(b) The address called the "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms."
(c) His friendships with John Adams and Ben Franklin.
(d) His relationship with his children.

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

3. How does Ellis feel about presentism?
(a) He suffers from it.
(b) He agrees with it.
(c) He argues against it.
(d) He is unsure about his stand on it.

4. What is Jefferson's refuge from troubled times?
(a) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(b) Richmond, Virginia.
(c) Monticello.
(d) The Continental Congress.

5. What test proves that Ellis's belief that a dalliance is completely out of character for Jefferson is incorrect?
(a) A DRA test.
(b) A drug test.
(c) A Regence test.
(d) A DNA test.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do many men of Jefferson's time refuse to own slaves?

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

3. Who claims this president?

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

5. When it comes to Jefferson's writing, what does he not like?

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