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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jefferson study in college?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Law.
(c) Business.
(d) Interpersonal Communications.

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

4. Of what does Ellis feel it is unfair to accuse a man of Jefferson's time regarding women?
(a) Nudity.
(b) Sexism.
(c) Family.
(d) Marriage.

5. How does Jefferson come to be a minor celebrity?
(a) His pamphlet "A Summary of the Rights of British America."
(b) His writing of the Declaration of Independence.
(c) His ambassador position in France.
(d) As governor of the state of Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what is Jefferson compared at an elaborate dinner party?

2. To what does Jefferson have a propensity?

3. Who is Sally Hemings?

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

5. What is presentism?

(see the answer key)

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