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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is miscegenation?
(a) The collection of many races within one nation.
(b) The mixing of generations.
(c) The miscommunication between politicians.
(d) The mixing of races.

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

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

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

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

6. Who is Sally Hemings?
(a) A slave that works in the fields at Monticello.
(b) A quadroon slave.
(c) Jefferson's second wife.
(d) A slave Jefferson sets free in his will.

7. About what will scholars still be arguing well into the 22nd century?
(a) Jefferson's debt.
(b) Jefferson's friendship with Adams.
(c) Jefferson's children.
(d) Jefferson's legacies.

8. Why does the wife of a British minister refer to his administration as "barbaric?"
(a) They openly discuss their illicit affairs.
(b) He eschews all protocol in seating during the dinner parties he hosts.
(c) They are rude and direspectful.
(d) The woman is not allowed in Jefferson's home.

9. How does Jefferson believe emancipation would work?
(a) It would start slowly in the northern states and then work south and west.
(b) It would not work well at all.
(c) If the newly freed slaves are deported.
(d) It would work extremely well.

10. For how much does Napoleon sell the land?
(a) Three cents per acre.
(b) One cent per acre.
(c) One dollar per acre.
(d) Three dollars per acre.

11. How would Jefferson feel about increased military might?
(a) He has no opinion about it.
(b) He would feel that our country is safer.
(c) He would disapprove of it.
(d) He approves of it.

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

13. How does Ellis describe Jefferson regarding his sexual energy?
(a) He says he is "almost uncomfortable."
(b) He says he is "almost feminine."
(c) He says he is "very shy."
(d) He says he is "extremely masculine."

14. Jefferson is a follower of Jesus but for what does he not have respect?
(a) Jews.
(b) Most organized religions.
(c) Catholics.
(d) Muslims.

15. What are John Adam's final words?
(a) "Thomas Jefferson is no more."
(b) "Thomas Jefferson lives."
(c) "The Founding Fathers are no more."
(d) "The Founding Fathers live."

Short Answer Questions

1. Even as he voices inspiring words uniting republicans and federalists in his first inaugural address, what does he say in personal letters to friends?

2. What is ironic about the enforcement of the separation of church and state?

3. Who is Aaron Burr?

4. What does Jefferson do regarding miscegenation?

5. What small parade precedes him to the Capitol?

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