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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What issue does Ellis dismiss as "slanderous assaults?"
(a) The Constitution issue.
(b) The Sally Hemings issue.
(c) The slavery issue.
(d) the Declaration of Independence issue.

2. What have several historians pointed out does not exist between a master and a slave?
(a) Fear.
(b) Racism.
(c) Consensual sex.
(d) A hierarchy.

3. How is having an affair and fathering children with a slave viewed by people of Jefferson's day?
(a) Normal.
(b) Unethical.
(c) Not unusual.
(d) Unimportant.

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

5. Why is Jefferson inconsolable and cries every night for six weeks?
(a) His wife dies.
(b) His daughter dies.
(c) His father dies.
(d) His mother dies.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what is Jefferson compared at an elaborate dinner party?

2. What does the previous administration rename Washington's Goose Creek?

3. Who prints scurrilous, vengeful allegations against Jefferson?

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

5. To what does Jefferson have a propensity?

(see the answer key)

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