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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jefferson announce, almost immediately, after the Embargo Act is passed?
(a) He will run for another term in office.
(b) He is getting remarried.
(c) He would not seek another term in office.
(d) He is canceling the Embarg Act.

2. What does Jefferson do with the 1,000 letters he receives each year?
(a) He writes lengthy, painstaking responses to each one.
(b) He writes short responses to a select few.
(c) He returns them.
(d) He burns them.

3. Who does Jefferson refer to his slaves?
(a) As his "extended family."
(b) As his property.
(c) As the bane of his existence.
(d) As members of society.

4. Why is it difficult for Patsy to love her husband?
(a) He is the father of his slave's children.
(b) He is mentally unstable.
(c) He is never home.
(d) She does not know how to love.

5. How does Jefferson believe emancipation would work?
(a) It would start slowly in the northern states and then work south and west.
(b) It would not work well at all.
(c) If the newly freed slaves are deported.
(d) It would work extremely well.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does Jefferson believe the war will cost?

2. What is a key facet of Jefferson's personality?

3. Of what is Jefferson the founder?

4. Where does Jefferson retreat to several times per year?

5. When it comes to Jefferson's writing, what does he not like?

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