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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who claims this president?
(a) Liberals and conservatives.
(b) His wife, Martha Wales.
(c) Republicans.
(d) Democrats.

2. What test proves that Ellis's belief that a dalliance is completely out of character for Jefferson is incorrect?
(a) A drug test.
(b) A DRA test.
(c) A Regence test.
(d) A DNA test.

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

4. Why is little known about Jefferson's early history?
(a) All records are destroyed in a fire in Shadwell, Virginia.
(b) No records are kept of his early life.
(c) His early life is fairly inconsequential.
(d) He has his records destroyed to protect his family.

5. Why do many men of Jefferson's time refuse to own slaves?
(a) They believe in complete segregation.
(b) They abhore those that are not white.
(c) They believe slaves spread disease.
(d) On moral grounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jefferson idealize?

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

3. To what does Jefferson have a propensity?

4. What is the nickname Ellis gives for Sally Hemings?

5. Where does Jefferson attend college?

(see the answer key)

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