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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is probably the most beloved and admired of American presidents?
(a) Herbert Hoover.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) George Washington.
(d) George Bush.

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

3. Why could those listening to his first address not understand him?
(a) He mumbles so badly.
(b) They are too far away from him.
(c) The crowd is cheering too loudly.
(d) He has a cold and loses his voice.

4. What changes would Jefferson wholeheartedly approve?
(a) The abolition of slavery.
(b) African Americans in positions of power.
(c) The technological advances.
(d) The Industrial Revolution.

5. When do historians discover Jefferson is at Monticello with Sally nine months before she gives birth to each of her children?
(a) In the 1850s.
(b) In the 1950s.
(c) In the 1960s.
(d) In the 1860s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellis say about Sally's last two children, Madison and Eston?

2. Thomas Payne began as a revolutionary hero. What has he become in just a few years?

3. 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?

4. For what does Jefferson owe $10,000 his first year as president?

5. What is the Boston Tea Party?

(see the answer key)

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