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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Elizabeth Walker?
(a) A woman with whom Alexander Hamilton has an illicit affair.
(b) Jefferson's youngest daughter.
(c) Sally Hemings' sister.
(d) A woman that Jefferson makes improper adavances to when he is a young, unmarried man.

2. Who is reportedly the father of Sally Hemings?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) John Wales.

3. What does the previous administration rename Washington's Goose Creek?
(a) The Euphrates.
(b) The Thames.
(c) The Tiber.
(d) The Tigris.

4. When he is elected president, what does George Washington offer Jefferson?
(a) The position of Secretary of State.
(b) The position of Secretary of Homeland Security.
(c) The position of Vice President.
(d) The position of Secretary of the Interior.

5. Regarding Sally Hemings, of what is Jefferson regularly accused?
(a) Selling her into slavery.
(b) Not providing for her.
(c) Being her father.
(d) Having an affair with her after his wife's death and fathering several of her seven children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides slaves, what else does Jefferson inherit from his father-in-law's estate?

2. What does Jefferson idealize?

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

4. Besides it being obvious that several of Sally Hemings' children have a white father, what makes it even more possible that they are Jefferson's?

5. When does this erosion take place?

(see the answer key)

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