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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is remarkable about the transfer of power from one president to the next?
(a) That it happens so quickly.
(b) That it happens so quietly.
(c) That it happens to violently.
(d) That it happens at all.

3. Who first exposes Jefferson to a companionate marriage?
(a) Ben and Debrah Franklin.
(b) John and Abigail Adams.
(c) James and Dolley Madison.
(d) George and Martha Washington.

4. What does Jefferson announce, almost immediately, after the Embargo Act is passed?
(a) He would not seek another term in office.
(b) He will run for another term in office.
(c) He is getting remarried.
(d) He is canceling the Embarg Act.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How would Jefferson feel about urbanization?

3. What has happened with Thomas Jefferson's popularity over time?

4. When does Polly die?

5. What have several historians pointed out does not exist between a master and a slave?

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