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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jefferson do with the 1,000 letters he receives each year?
(a) He writes short responses to a select few.
(b) He burns them.
(c) He writes lengthy, painstaking responses to each one.
(d) He returns them.

2. What is Jefferson's last attempt to save Monticello for his daughter and her children?
(a) He sells all of his slaves.
(b) He does not try to save Monticello.
(c) He asks his neighbors to donate money to pay his debts.
(d) He asks the Virginia legislature to allow him to conduct a public lottery.

3. What is ironic about the enforcement of the separation of church and state?
(a) It is not effective.
(b) It is not a true separation.
(c) It is enforced by the Supreme Court, the government institution Jefferson hates the most.
(d) It has not preserved religious freedom.

4. What did Jefferson never mean for his writings to do?
(a) To encourage the abolition of slavery.
(b) To encourage illicit affairs.
(c) They have been used to justify racial equality.
(d) To justify wars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why could those listening to his first address not understand him?

2. What does the Virginia Assembly do, regarding Jefferson's reaction to the invasion by Benedict Arnold's troops?

3. When does this erosion take place?

4. What is miscegenation?

5. Who is Jefferson's vice president?

(see the answer key)

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