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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why is it difficult for Patsy to love her husband?
(a) He is the father of his slave's children.
(b) He is mentally unstable.
(c) He is never home.
(d) She does not know how to love.

4. Who is deeply in debt?
(a) Franklin.
(b) Jefferson.
(c) Madison.
(d) Adams.

5. Jefferson's nail-making laborer's are compared to what author's characters?
(a) Charles Manson.
(b) Jane Seymour.
(c) Emily Dickinson.
(d) Charles Dickens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Virginia Assembly do, regarding Jefferson's reaction to the invasion by Benedict Arnold's troops?

2. What does Jefferson idealize?

3. When he is elected president, what does George Washington offer Jefferson?

4. Of what does Ellis feel it is unfair to accuse a man of Jefferson's time regarding women?

5. What is the cause of friction for Jefferson?

(see the answer key)

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