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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author find surprising about an evening devoted to Jefferson in 1993?
(a) 400 people attend, rather than the estimated 40.
(b) 40 people attend, rather than the estimated 400.
(c) The audience has little respect for Jefferson as a president.
(d) The audience is very argumentative about Jefferson's stand on slavery.

2. What does Jefferson believe the vastness of the western territories would do to slavery?
(a) Dissipate it.
(b) Embrace it.
(c) Have nothing to do with slavery.
(d) Encourage it.

3. About what will scholars still be arguing well into the 22nd century?
(a) Jefferson's debt.
(b) Jefferson's children.
(c) Jefferson's friendship with Adams.
(d) Jefferson's legacies.

4. How would Jefferson have gone through life, if his pamphlet had not been published?
(a) Unnoticed.
(b) As a well-known lawyer.
(c) As a Virginia politician.
(d) An American ambassador.

5. How much does Jefferson believe the war will cost?
(a) $3 million.
(b) $3 billion.
(c) $6 billion.
(d) $6 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is remarkable about the transfer of power from one president to the next?

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

3. How does Jefferson arrive in Paris?

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

5. How do Jefferson's views on slavery continue to be?

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