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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 fatherly love.
(b) His abhorence of slavery.
(c) His lifelong avoidance of conflict.
(d) His sense of humor.

2. What illustrates two central features of Jefferson's personality?
(a) The amended version of the "Declaration of Independence."
(b) The address called the "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms."
(c) His friendships with John Adams and Ben Franklin.
(d) His relationship with his children.

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

4. What have several historians pointed out does not exist between a master and a slave?
(a) A hierarchy.
(b) Consensual sex.
(c) Racism.
(d) Fear.

5. What does Jefferson expect his slave to learn while in France?
(a) To become fluent in French.
(b) The fine art of French cookery.
(c) The fine art of French painting.
(d) How to be obedient.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason the author gives for the contradiction between Jefferson's opinion of slavery and his owning of slaves?

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

3. What does Jefferson study in college?

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

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

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