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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jefferson retire to Monticello by 1794?
(a) To get away from John Adams.
(b) To spend time with his daughters.
(c) To heal his considerable political wounds.
(d) To work on the design for a new home.

2. Who is Sally Hemings?
(a) Jefferson's wife.
(b) Martha Wales' sister.
(c) Jefferson's neice.
(d) A slave Jefferson inherited from his wife's family.

3. What is a key facet of Jefferson's personality?
(a) His abhorence of slavery.
(b) His sense of humor.
(c) His lifelong avoidance of conflict.
(d) His fatherly love.

4. What makes American ships easy prey?
(a) Jefferson all but eliminates the U.S. Navy.
(b) The sailors are poorly trained.
(c) They are not as technologically-advanced as other country's ships.
(d) They are in a harbor far out at sea.

5. Regarding Sally Hemings, of what is Jefferson regularly accused?
(a) Selling her into slavery.
(b) Having an affair with her after his wife's death and fathering several of her seven children.
(c) Not providing for her.
(d) Being her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what descent is Hamilton?

2. How are Jefferson's actions towards slavery and his views of slavery contradictory?

3. Jefferson's nail-making laborer's are compared to what author's characters?

4. What issue does Ellis dismiss as "slanderous assaults?"

5. Besides slaves, what else does Jefferson inherit from his father-in-law's estate?

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