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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a key facet of Jefferson's personality?
(a) His lifelong avoidance of conflict.
(b) His sense of humor.
(c) His abhorence of slavery.
(d) His fatherly love.

2. What is presentism?
(a) Not believing that events in the past have taken place; being completely focused on present-day issues and topics.
(b) The obsession with requiring gifts and other presents.
(c) To present false information about an issue or historical period.
(d) The tendency to apply current social and ethical standard to the behavior of past eras.

3. Who claims this president?
(a) Democrats.
(b) Republicans.
(c) His wife, Martha Wales.
(d) Liberals and conservatives.

4. What does Abigail Adams provide Jefferson from London?
(a) Parenting advice.
(b) A connection with Parliament.
(c) A connection to King George III.
(d) Intimate female companionship.

5. What does Jefferson know about some of the revisionist history he writes?
(a) It is just.
(b) It is inaccurate.
(c) It is false.
(d) It is true.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have several historians pointed out does not exist between a master and a slave?

2. How does Jefferson arrive in Paris?

3. What promise does Martha extract from Jefferson?

4. What does Jefferson study in college?

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

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