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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What promise does Martha extract from Jefferson?
(a) To send his children to expensive boarding schools.
(b) To go back to Philadelphia to be a member of the Continental Congress.
(c) A deathbed promise to not remarry.
(d) To end his affair with Sally.

2. How does Jefferson arrive in Philadelphia for the first Continental Congress?
(a) He arrives excited and ready to lead the nation.
(b) He arrives by horseback, as do most people at this time.
(c) He arrives secretly in the night, due to the high security risk.
(d) He arrives in an opulent carriage with three slaves outfitted in elaborate costumes.

3. Regarding Sally Hemings, of what is Jefferson regularly accused?
(a) Selling her into slavery.
(b) Being her father.
(c) Having an affair with her after his wife's death and fathering several of her seven children.
(d) Not providing for her.

4. On what are several of Jefferson's arguments based?
(a) Historical facts.
(b) Truths.
(c) The history of monarchies.
(d) Untruths.

5. What do many slave owners require of their slaves?
(a) Tutoring.
(b) Disobedience.
(c) Sexual services.
(d) An education.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what has Jefferson either never learned the technique or accepted the necessity?

2. What does Jefferson argue should be eliminated from the Constitution of the new nation?

3. What happens to Martha Wales Jefferson several months after the birth of their daughter Lucy Elizabeth?

4. What does Jefferson study in college?

5. Who is Sally Hemings?

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