View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Polly marry?
(a) John Smith.
(b) John Wales Eppes.
(c) Thomas Payne.
(d) Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.

3. What is Jefferson's most successful financial enterprise?
(a) Making wagon wheels.
(b) Growing tobacco.
(c) Growing wheat.
(d) Nail making.

4. Who is deeply in debt?
(a) Adams.
(b) Jefferson.
(c) Madison.
(d) Franklin.

5. What do both Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover claim about Jefferson?
(a) His opinion of the women's rights movement.
(b) His views of isolationism.
(c) His ideals in their very different opinions of prohibition.
(d) His ideals in their very different ways of handling the Depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellis call flexibility and others might call hypocrisy?

2. How famous is Jefferson at the time he becomes an ambassador in France?

3. Why does the audience not ask questions regarding Jefferson's slave ownership and relationship with Sally Hemings?

4. What does Abigail Adams encourage Jefferson to do, regarding his daughter Maria?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 266 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample