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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is raising Maria, known as Polly, Jefferson?
(a) John Wales.
(b) Ben Franklin.
(c) John Adams.
(d) Slaves in Virginia.

2. What is presentism?
(a) The tendency to apply current social and ethical standard to the behavior of past eras.
(b) The obsession with requiring gifts and other presents.
(c) To present false information about an issue or historical period.
(d) Not believing that events in the past have taken place; being completely focused on present-day issues and topics.

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

4. What does Jefferson become, very publicly, while an ambassador in France?
(a) A hypocrite.
(b) A Francophile.
(c) A Christian.
(d) A Democrat.

5. What is expected of politicians of Jefferson's day?
(a) To be fallible humans like the rest of mankind.
(b) To live in Washington, D.C.
(c) To do what the people want.
(d) To represent the best that mankind has to offer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the other two ambassadors in France?

2. What is Jefferson's most successful financial enterprise?

3. What does Jefferson decide to plant in the place of tobacco?

4. What affect does Jefferson's term as Governor of Virginia have on the state?

5. How would Jefferson have gone through life, if his pamphlet had not been published?

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