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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What legacy of Jefferson's lives on?
(a) His legacy of slavery and contradictions.
(b) His legacy of idealism and revolutionary spirit.
(c) His legacy of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
(d) His legacy of familial love and respect.

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

3. What closes all ports in the U.S. to trade and is an economically crippling move?
(a) An attack by the British.
(b) The Embargo Act.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) An attack by the French.

4. What does everyone expect of President Thomas Jefferson?
(a) To be difficult with which to deal.
(b) To be a powerful leader.
(c) To be hard to understand.
(d) They are not quite sure what to expect.

5. As president, from what does Jefferson suffer?
(a) Asthma.
(b) Stage fright.
(c) Attacks by the press.
(d) Arthritis.

6. Besides it being obvious that several of Sally Hemings' children have a white father, what makes it even more possible that they are Jefferson's?
(a) They are born in the Monticello house.
(b) The children resemble Jefferson's daughters.
(c) Several of the children call Jefferson "father."
(d) Several of her children have features resembling Jefferson's.

7. How do Jefferson's views on slavery continue to be?
(a) Complex.
(b) Kind.
(c) Humane.
(d) Simple.

8. What is ironic about the enforcement of the separation of church and state?
(a) It is not effective.
(b) It is enforced by the Supreme Court, the government institution Jefferson hates the most.
(c) It is not a true separation.
(d) It has not preserved religious freedom.

9. Why could those listening to his first address not understand him?
(a) He has a cold and loses his voice.
(b) They are too far away from him.
(c) He mumbles so badly.
(d) The crowd is cheering too loudly.

10. 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."

11. Who is Elizabeth Walker?
(a) Sally Hemings' sister.
(b) A woman that Jefferson makes improper adavances to when he is a young, unmarried man.
(c) Jefferson's youngest daughter.
(d) A woman with whom Alexander Hamilton has an illicit affair.

12. What do today's scholars know about this time in Jefferson's life?
(a) More than any other time in his life.
(b) As much as they know about the rest of his life.
(c) Nothing, since his records are burned in a fire.
(d) Very little.

13. What is Jefferson's last attempt to save Monticello for his daughter and her children?
(a) He asks his neighbors to donate money to pay his debts.
(b) He asks the Virginia legislature to allow him to conduct a public lottery.
(c) He sells all of his slaves.
(d) He does not try to save Monticello.

14. Within the scholarly world what is the consensus regarding the story about Jefferson and Sally Hemings?
(a) They believe it to be the truth.
(b) They believe it to be most certainly not true.
(c) They believe it to be absolutely true.
(d) They believe it to be a possibility.

15. Who is Madison Hemings?
(a) Sally Hemings' son who reveals during an interview that his mother told him that Jefferson fathered all five of her children.
(b) Sally Hemings' sister who also lives at Monticello.
(c) Sally Hemings' son who protects Jefferson.
(d) Sally Hemings' sister who is Jefferson's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lasts the remainder of Jefferson's and Adams' lives?

2. When is there an increase in U.S. military might?

3. In what tradition does Jefferson regard all political power as inherently corrupting?

4. Jefferson is a follower of Jesus but for what does he not have respect?

5. What does Jefferson do with the 1,000 letters he receives each year?

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