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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what is Jefferson compared at an elaborate dinner party?
(a) A criminal.
(b) A non-English-speaking guest.
(c) A mime.
(d) A court jester.

3. What does the author find surprising about an evening devoted to Jefferson in 1993?
(a) The audience has little respect for Jefferson as a president.
(b) 400 people attend, rather than the estimated 40.
(c) The audience is very argumentative about Jefferson's stand on slavery.
(d) 40 people attend, rather than the estimated 400.

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

5. What two decisions shape Jefferson's entire life?
(a) His marriage to Martha and the birth of his three daughters.
(b) To build a house and run for the House of Burgesses.
(c) His marriage to Martha and his move to Philadelphia.
(d) The writing of his pamphlets and his time as governor of Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How are Jefferson's political beliefs during those revolutionary times?

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

4. What issue does Ellis dismiss as "slanderous assaults?"

5. What does Jefferson study in college?

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