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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pattern do his days at Monticello follow?
(a) He sits, relaxes, and thinks about his life.
(b) The prdictable pattern of an aristocratic gentleman.
(c) He spends his days in the fields watching over his slaves.
(d) They are very unpredictable.

2. What does everyone expect of President Thomas Jefferson?
(a) To be a powerful leader.
(b) To be difficult with which to deal.
(c) They are not quite sure what to expect.
(d) To be hard to understand.

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

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

5. How would Jefferson feel about urbanization?
(a) He would want to live in our urban society.
(b) He would disapprove of it.
(c) He would approve of it.
(d) He would have no opinion about it.

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

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

8. Who is Jefferson's vice president?
(a) Aaron Burr.
(b) James Monroe.
(c) James Madison.
(d) Alexander Hamilton.

9. When does Jefferson permanently retire to Monticello?
(a) 1829.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1809.

10. What does Jefferson do with the 1,000 letters he receives each year?
(a) He writes short responses to a select few.
(b) He returns them.
(c) He burns them.
(d) He writes lengthy, painstaking responses to each one.

11. Who does Jefferson tell his daughter Martha is the father of Sally's children?
(a) Aaron Burr.
(b) His nephew, Peter Carr.
(c) Alexander Hamilton.
(d) His father-in-law, John Wales.

12. Who is Elizabeth Walker?
(a) A woman that Jefferson makes improper adavances to when he is a young, unmarried man.
(b) A woman with whom Alexander Hamilton has an illicit affair.
(c) Sally Hemings' sister.
(d) Jefferson's youngest daughter.

13. 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 a true separation.
(c) It is not effective.
(d) It has not preserved religious freedom.

14. Who is Madison Hemings?
(a) Sally Hemings' sister who also lives at Monticello.
(b) Sally Hemings' sister who is Jefferson's daughter.
(c) Sally Hemings' son who reveals during an interview that his mother told him that Jefferson fathered all five of her children.
(d) Sally Hemings' son who protects Jefferson.

15. What does Jefferson say to Elizabeth Walker's husband?
(a) He publicly apologizes.
(b) He does not apologize for actions that he believe to be acceptable.
(c) He says he is innocent and never made advances towards Elizabeth.
(d) He secretly apologizes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what tradition does Jefferson regard all political power as inherently corrupting?

2. Who handles the negotiations with the French?

3. What has been recognized by the "American Institute of Architects as 'the proudest achievement of American architecture in the past 200 years?'"

4. Of what are these two acutely aware?

5. When is there an increase in U.S. military might?

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