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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What illustrates two central features of Jefferson's personality?
(a) His friendships with John Adams and Ben Franklin.
(b) The address called the "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms."
(c) The amended version of the "Declaration of Independence."
(d) His relationship with his children.

3. Who is Jefferson's vice president?
(a) James Madison.
(b) Alexander Hamilton.
(c) James Monroe.
(d) Aaron Burr.

4. Besides slaves, what else does Jefferson inherit from his father-in-law's estate?
(a) Land.
(b) A house.
(c) Animals.
(d) Debt.

5. What legacy of Jefferson's lives on?
(a) His legacy of familial love and respect.
(b) His legacy of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
(c) His legacy of slavery and contradictions.
(d) His legacy of idealism and revolutionary spirit.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jefferson react to the invasion by Benedict Arnold's troops?

2. What does Jefferson announce, almost immediately, after the Embargo Act is passed?

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

4. For what are Betty Hemings' grandchildren mistaken?

5. Who handles the negotiations with the French?

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