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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens between France and England in 1803?
(a) They want to purchase land from Jefferson.
(b) They renew their friendship.
(c) They renew hostilities.
(d) They decide to go to war with the U.S.

2. For what does Jefferson owe $10,000 his first year as president?
(a) Carriages.
(b) Decorations.
(c) Wine.
(d) His daughter's school tuition.

3. What legacy of Jefferson's lives on?
(a) His legacy of idealism and revolutionary spirit.
(b) His legacy of familial love and respect.
(c) His legacy of slavery and contradictions.
(d) His legacy of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

4. Who prints scurrilous, vengeful allegations against Jefferson?
(a) John Adams.
(b) John Wade.
(c) James Callender.
(d) Alexander Hamilton.

5. What does Jefferson lead?
(a) The voice of dissent against the establishment.
(b) The U.S. to victory.
(c) The Democratic Party.
(d) The military.

6. Who constantly attends Jefferson at Monticello?
(a) His daughter Maria.
(b) No one, for he is alone.
(c) His black slave Burwell.
(d) His black slave Sally Hemings.

7. What do today's scholars know about this time in Jefferson's life?
(a) Very little.
(b) As much as they know about the rest of his life.
(c) More than any other time in his life.
(d) Nothing, since his records are burned in a fire.

8. Within the scholarly world what is the consensus regarding the story about Jefferson and Sally Hemings?
(a) They believe it to be absolutely true.
(b) They believe it to be a possibility.
(c) They believe it to be the truth.
(d) They believe it to be most certainly not true.

9. Where does Jefferson retreat to several times per year?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Poplar Forest.
(c) Monticello.
(d) Philadelphia.

10. What is remarkable about the transfer of power from one president to the next?
(a) That it happens at all.
(b) That it happens so quietly.
(c) That it happens so quickly.
(d) That it happens to violently.

11. Thomas Payne began as a revolutionary hero. What has he become in just a few years?
(a) He is a hermit.
(b) He is a pastor.
(c) An obnoxious alcoholic.
(d) He is more popular and loved than ever.

12. As what is Sally Hemings known?
(a) The "Venus de Milo."
(b) The "African China Doll."
(c) The "Queen of the Africans."
(d) The "African Venus."

13. As president, from what does Jefferson suffer?
(a) Attacks by the press.
(b) Arthritis.
(c) Stage fright.
(d) Asthma.

14. What would Jefferson disapprove of since his death?
(a) The emancipation of slaves.
(b) Many of the changes that have occurred.
(c) The changes to the Declaration of Independence.
(d) The separation of church and state.

15. Even as he voices inspiring words uniting republicans and federalists in his first inaugural address, what does he say in personal letters to friends?
(a) He vows to eradicate the Republicans.
(b) He vows to eradicate all parties.
(c) He vows to eradicate the Federalists.
(d) He vows to start his own party, the Democrats.

Short Answer Questions

1. Politicians have long been subjected to what type of rumors?

2. What coincides with the start of Jefferson's supposed affair with Sally?

3. What changes would Jefferson wholeheartedly approve?

4. How many slaves does Jefferson free in his will?

5. What makes American ships easy prey?

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