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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jefferson idealize?
(a) France.
(b) Humanity.
(c) The King of England.
(d) Nature.

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

3. What do both Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover claim about Jefferson?
(a) His ideals in their very different opinions of prohibition.
(b) His opinion of the women's rights movement.
(c) His views of isolationism.
(d) His ideals in their very different ways of handling the Depression.

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

5. What is the reason the author gives for the contradiction between Jefferson's opinion of slavery and his owning of slaves?
(a) He believes in human dignity and freedom, as long as it does not conflict with his own wealth and comfort.
(b) He is against slavery but owns them because he feels pressure to do so.
(c) He believes in human dignity for those that are of European descent, as long as they do not own slaves.
(d) He enjoys an easier life by owning slaves, therefore he is pro-slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jefferson's refuge from troubled times?

2. How does Jefferson feel about spirited debates?

3. Who claims this president?

4. On what are several of Jefferson's arguments based?

5. What two decisions shape Jefferson's entire life?

(see the answer key)

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