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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ellis feel about presentism?
(a) He argues against it.
(b) He suffers from it.
(c) He is unsure about his stand on it.
(d) He agrees with it.

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

3. What issue does Ellis dismiss as "slanderous assaults?"
(a) The Constitution issue.
(b) The Sally Hemings issue.
(c) the Declaration of Independence issue.
(d) The slavery issue.

4. How long is Jefferson Governor of Virginia?
(a) Three years.
(b) Four years.
(c) One year.
(d) Two years.

5. What does Jefferson argue should be eliminated from the Constitution of the new nation?
(a) Women's rights.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Freedom of speech.
(d) Freedom of the press.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do both Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover claim about Jefferson?

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

3. Who accompanied Jefferson to France?

4. What does the Virginia Assembly do, regarding Jefferson's reaction to the invasion by Benedict Arnold's troops?

5. What does Jefferson know about some of the revisionist history he writes?

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