American Sphinx Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Joseph Ellis
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 110 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

American Sphinx Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Joseph Ellis
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Patsy marry?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Thomas Payne.
(c) Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.
(d) William Randolph Hearst.

2. What governmental position does Alexander Hamilton hold?
(a) Secretary of the Treasury.
(b) Secretary of State.
(c) Surgeon General.
(d) Secretary of the Interior.

3. How does Jefferson feel about spirited debates?
(a) He loves to be in on the action.
(b) He believes they are a waste of time.
(c) He thinks they are very beneficial when fighting for a cause.
(d) He has a stong aversion towards them and is unable to participate.

4. What does Jefferson decide to plant in the place of tobacco?
(a) Flax.
(b) Soybeans.
(c) Corn.
(d) Wheat.

5. Of what descent is Hamilton?
(a) Scottish.
(b) German.
(c) Irish.
(d) French.

6. What serve as the most enduring record of Jefferson's life?
(a) The letter Jefferson and Abigail Adams exchange.
(b) The letters Jefferson and Madison exchange.
(c) The laws he passes as Governor of Virginia.
(d) His pamphlets.

7. Why is it difficult for Patsy to love her husband?
(a) She does not know how to love.
(b) He is the father of his slave's children.
(c) He is never home.
(d) He is mentally unstable.

8. What does Jefferson expect his slave to learn while in France?
(a) How to be obedient.
(b) The fine art of French cookery.
(c) The fine art of French painting.
(d) To become fluent in French.

9. What do many slave owners require of their slaves?
(a) Tutoring.
(b) An education.
(c) Disobedience.
(d) Sexual services.

10. What does Jefferson study in college?
(a) Law.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Interpersonal Communications.
(d) Business.

11. What issue does Ellis dismiss as "slanderous assaults?"
(a) The Constitution issue.
(b) the Declaration of Independence issue.
(c) The slavery issue.
(d) The Sally Hemings issue.

12. What does the Virginia Assembly do, regarding Jefferson's reaction to the invasion by Benedict Arnold's troops?
(a) They chastise him for hiding.
(b) They make him commander of the Virginia army.
(c) They launch an investigation against him for cowardice and dereliction of duty.
(d) They award him with the Medal of Honor.

13. How does Jefferson arrive in Paris?
(a) In an elaborate, handcrafted, phaeton that is fancier than the one that conveyed him to Philadelphia.
(b) In a simple two-wheeled carriage.
(c) In a parade.
(d) Secretly in the night.

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

15. Why does the audience not ask questions regarding Jefferson's slave ownership and relationship with Sally Hemings?
(a) They are too embarrassed.
(b) They are too timid.
(c) They are unsure whether it is appropriate to discuss these issues.
(d) They are too well-mannered.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jefferson become, very publicly, while an ambassador in France?

2. When it comes to Jefferson's writing, what does he not like?

3. Who is Sally Hemings?

4. What is expected of politicians of Jefferson's day?

5. For what are Betty Hemings' grandchildren mistaken?

(see the answer keys)

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