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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Abigail Adams provide Jefferson from London?
(a) A connection with Parliament.
(b) Parenting advice.
(c) A connection to King George III.
(d) Intimate female companionship.

3. What happens to Martha Wales Jefferson several months after the birth of their daughter Lucy Elizabeth?
(a) She becomes ill but recovers.
(b) She tells Jefferson she is not having anymore of his children.
(c) She becomes pregnant with their fourth child.
(d) She dies.

4. What does Jefferson know about some of the revisionist history he writes?
(a) It is false.
(b) It is true.
(c) It is inaccurate.
(d) It is just.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What serve as the most enduring record of Jefferson's life?

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

4. Why is Jefferson inconsolable and cries every night for six weeks?

5. Where does Jefferson attend college?

(see the answer key)

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