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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How would Jefferson have gone through life, if his pamphlet had not been published?
(a) As a well-known lawyer.
(b) An American ambassador.
(c) Unnoticed.
(d) As a Virginia politician.

2. To what is Jefferson compared at an elaborate dinner party?
(a) A non-English-speaking guest.
(b) A court jester.
(c) A criminal.
(d) A mime.

3. What does Jefferson idealize?
(a) France.
(b) Nature.
(c) The King of England.
(d) Humanity.

4. Regarding Sally Hemings, of what is Jefferson regularly accused?
(a) Selling her into slavery.
(b) Having an affair with her after his wife's death and fathering several of her seven children.
(c) Being her father.
(d) Not providing for her.

5. What does Jefferson study in college?
(a) Law.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Interpersonal Communications.
(d) Business.

Short Answer Questions

1. What test proves that Ellis's belief that a dalliance is completely out of character for Jefferson is incorrect?

2. What happens to Martha Wales Jefferson several months after the birth of their daughter Lucy Elizabeth?

3. Why is little known about Jefferson's early history?

4. Why does Jefferson retire to Monticello by 1794?

5. Why is Jefferson inconsolable and cries every night for six weeks?

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