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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 idealize?
(a) France.
(b) Nature.
(c) The King of England.
(d) Humanity.

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

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

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

5. What does Jefferson know about some of the revisionist history he writes?
(a) It is just.
(b) It is true.
(c) It is inaccurate.
(d) It is false.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two decisions shape Jefferson's entire life?

2. What is ironic about the enforcement of the separation of church and state?

3. Who is probably the most beloved and admired of American presidents?

4. What does Jefferson believe creates wars, rather than prevents them?

5. How does Jefferson arrive in Philadelphia for the first Continental Congress?

(see the answer key)

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