American Sphinx Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Joseph Ellis
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 110 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

American Sphinx Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Joseph Ellis
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Jefferson's actions towards slavery and his views of slavery contradictory?

2. How does Jefferson arrive in Philadelphia for the first Continental Congress?

3. Who does Jefferson refer to his slaves?

4. Who is raising Maria, known as Polly, Jefferson?

5. Where does Jefferson attend college?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Jefferson's ideal Utopian society?

2. To what does the author compare the sexual services required of slaves?

3. Why are the Hemingses allowed to live at Mulberry Row and work in the house?

4. What are two central features of Jefferson's personality?

5. Why might the audience have been too polite to discuss Jefferson's slave ownership and relationship with Sally Hemings?

6. Why does Madison let Jefferson know that his name is being put forth as the Republican Party's candidate for president through coded letters?

7. What two views of Jefferson's about King George III are incompatible?

8. What does Jefferson do with his companions once they arrive in France?

9. Where is the relationship between Jefferson and Hemings a topic?

10. What do Patsy and Polly have in common?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After Jefferson's 1775 to 1776 winter retreat to Monticello, he tries unsuccessfully to avoid returning to Philadelphia.

Part 1) Why does he not want to return?

Part 2) What are his tactics for avoiding the return?

Part 3) Where would Jefferson rather be? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Jefferson writes revisionist history.

Part 1) What is revisionist history?

Part 2) What revisionist history does he write?

Part 3) Why might he do this?

Essay Topic 3

Jefferson very publicly becomes a Francophone while in Paris.

Part 1) What is a Francophone?

Part 2) Why and how is Jefferson a Francophone?

Part 3) How does it affect his opinion of the French?

(see the answer keys)

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