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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is having an affair and fathering children with a slave viewed by people of Jefferson's day?
(a) Unimportant.
(b) Normal.
(c) Not unusual.
(d) Unethical.

2. What is the Boston Tea Party?
(a) A gathering of colonists to peacefully protest British rule.
(b) A tea store in Boston.
(c) A prank by a group of hooligans.
(d) A fundraiser for the city of Boston.

3. Who is Aaron Burr?
(a) Jefferson's Secretary of State.
(b) A powerful speaker.
(c) An ambitious political schemer.
(d) A lovable, friendly man.

4. Who does Patsy confess to loving more than her husband?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her nanny.
(d) Her father.

5. What serve as the most enduring record of Jefferson's life?
(a) The letter Jefferson and Abigail Adams exchange.
(b) The letters Jefferson and Madison exchange.
(c) The laws he passes as Governor of Virginia.
(d) His pamphlets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a key facet of Jefferson's personality?

2. When it comes to Jefferson's writing, what does he not like?

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

4. Why does the wife of a British minister refer to his administration as "barbaric?"

5. Who does Polly marry?

(see the answer key)

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