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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does this erosion take place?
(a) During the Vietnam War.
(b) During the Cold War.
(c) During the Gulf War.
(d) During the Civil War.

3. What company precedes him to the Capitol?
(a) A company of dancers.
(b) A company of legal advisors.
(c) A company of militia.
(d) A company of government analysts.

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

5. 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?
(a) Several of her children have features resembling Jefferson's.
(b) Several of the children call Jefferson "father."
(c) They are born in the Monticello house.
(d) The children resemble Jefferson's daughters.

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

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

8. What is ironic about the enforcement of the separation of church and state?
(a) It is enforced by the Supreme Court, the government institution Jefferson hates the most.
(b) It is not effective.
(c) It has not preserved religious freedom.
(d) It is not a true separation.

9. Of what change in the U.S. would Jefferson disapprove?
(a) The erosion of states' rights.
(b) The fight for family farms.
(c) The abolition of slavery.
(d) Efforts to protect the environment.

10. How are John Adam's last words factually incorrect?
(a) Jefferson dies about five hours after Adams.
(b) Jefferson dies about five hours earlier than Adams.
(c) The Founding Fathers have all died.
(d) There is still one Founding Father alive.

11. What did Jefferson never mean for his writings to do?
(a) To justify wars.
(b) They have been used to justify racial equality.
(c) To encourage illicit affairs.
(d) To encourage the abolition of slavery.

12. Where is Jefferson the most popular historical figure?
(a) On the internet.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Pennsylvania.

13. What does Ellis believe about the relationship of Jefferson and Sally after the story becomes so public?
(a) If there had been an affair, he would have ended after it became public knowledge.
(b) There is never a relationship, so nothing changes about their relationship as slave owner and slave.
(c) It becomes stronger after the allegations become public.
(d) It continues, because he is the father of her last two children.

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

15. What does Jefferson do regarding miscegenation?
(a) He passes a law to preserve it.
(b) He repeatedly speaks out about its evils.
(c) He encourages it.
(d) He practices miscegenation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jefferson's vice president?

2. With what does Jefferson's election coincide?

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

4. What is miscegenation?

5. How does Jefferson believe emancipation would work?

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