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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Sally Hemings?
(a) A slave Jefferson sets free in his will.
(b) A slave that works in the fields at Monticello.
(c) Jefferson's second wife.
(d) A quadroon slave.

2. Of what is Jefferson the founder?
(a) The University of Virginia.
(b) The University of the District of Columbia.
(c) The University of Miami.
(d) The College of William and Mary.

3. What lasts the remainder of Jefferson's and Adams' lives?
(a) Their terms in office.
(b) The marriage of their children to one another.
(c) Their exchange of letters.
(d) Their hatred for one another.

4. Who points out "The true Jeffersonian legacy is to be hostile to legacies?"
(a) Joclyn Smith.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Jaqueline Applegate.
(d) Joyce Appleby.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Elizabeth Walker?

2. What is miscegenation?

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

4. Politicians have long been subjected to what type of rumors?

5. Where is Jefferson the most popular historical figure?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Jefferson and Adams begin to reconcile their friendship?

2. Why is Jefferson accused, inaccurately, of being an atheist?

3. How are Jefferson's views of slavery at this point in his life?

4. Of what aspects of our culture and government would Jefferson approve?

5. Who are the last two surviving Founding Fathers, and how are they treated?

6. Why does Jefferson retreat to Poplar Forest?

7. Why does Jefferson make the Louisiana Purchase?

8. What do historians verify in the 1950s?

9. How does Madison Hemings back the claim that Jefferson had an illicit affair with Sally Hemings?

10. How does Jefferson's arrival in Washington, D.C., differ from his arrivals in Philadelphia and Paris?

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