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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does everyone expect of President Thomas Jefferson?
(a) They are not quite sure what to expect.
(b) To be a powerful leader.
(c) To be hard to understand.
(d) To be difficult with which to deal.

2. How does Jefferson react to the invasion by Benedict Arnold's troops?
(a) He single-handedly fights Benedict Arnold.
(b) He flees on horseback.
(c) He musters his militia.
(d) He hides in Monticello.

3. Even as he voices inspiring words uniting republicans and federalists in his first inaugural address, what does he say in personal letters to friends?
(a) He vows to eradicate all parties.
(b) He vows to eradicate the Republicans.
(c) He vows to start his own party, the Democrats.
(d) He vows to eradicate the Federalists.

4. When it comes to Jefferson's writing, what does he not like?
(a) To write political pamphlets.
(b) To write persuasively.
(c) To be edited.
(d) To have his work accepted.

5. With whom did Jefferson engage in vile public clashes?
(a) John Adams.
(b) Alexander Hamilton.
(c) Aaron Burr.
(d) James Madison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jefferson believe creates wars, rather than prevents them?

2. How is having an affair and fathering children with a slave viewed by people of Jefferson's day?

3. How long did Jeffersonians rule the nation?

4. As president, from what does Jefferson suffer?

5. Who does Jefferson sometimes revile as a drunkard and sometimes as a wise, just ruler?

(see the answer key)

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