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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. As president, from what does Jefferson suffer?
(a) Arthritis.
(b) Attacks by the press.
(c) Stage fright.
(d) Asthma.
2. What are John Adam's final words?
(a) "The Founding Fathers are no more."
(b) "The Founding Fathers live."
(c) "Thomas Jefferson lives."
(d) "Thomas Jefferson is no more."
3. Thomas Payne began as a revolutionary hero. What has he become in just a few years?
(a) He is a hermit.
(b) An obnoxious alcoholic.
(c) He is more popular and loved than ever.
(d) He is a pastor.
4. Who handles the negotiations with the French?
(a) Adams.
(b) Burr.
(c) Jefferson.
(d) Madison.
5. Who points out "The true Jeffersonian legacy is to be hostile to legacies?"
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Joyce Appleby.
(c) Jaqueline Applegate.
(d) Joclyn Smith.
6. Why does Napoleon enter into negotiations to sell what is called the Louisiana Purchase?
(a) He is friends with Jefferson.
(b) He fears the U.S.
(c) He needs cash to fund European wars.
(d) He does not like the North American soil.
7. Who is Madison Hemings?
(a) Sally Hemings' sister who is Jefferson's daughter.
(b) Sally Hemings' son who reveals during an interview that his mother told him that Jefferson fathered all five of her children.
(c) Sally Hemings' sister who also lives at Monticello.
(d) Sally Hemings' son who protects Jefferson.
8. 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.
9. Where is Jefferson the most popular historical figure?
(a) Virginia.
(b) On the internet.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Pennsylvania.
10. What pattern do his days at Monticello follow?
(a) They are very unpredictable.
(b) The prdictable pattern of an aristocratic gentleman.
(c) He spends his days in the fields watching over his slaves.
(d) He sits, relaxes, and thinks about his life.
11. Who is Sally Hemings?
(a) A slave Jefferson sets free in his will.
(b) A quadroon slave.
(c) A slave that works in the fields at Monticello.
(d) Jefferson's second wife.
12. Of what change in the U.S. would Jefferson disapprove?
(a) Efforts to protect the environment.
(b) The erosion of states' rights.
(c) The abolition of slavery.
(d) The fight for family farms.
13. Why does the wife of a British minister refer to his administration as "barbaric?"
(a) They openly discuss their illicit affairs.
(b) They are rude and direspectful.
(c) He eschews all protocol in seating during the dinner parties he hosts.
(d) The woman is not allowed in Jefferson's home.
14. Soon after retiring to Monticello, he outlines a tract addressing what charges?
(a) That he had an affair with Sally Hemings.
(b) That he is an atheist.
(c) That he is an alcoholic.
(d) That he fled from the British invaders.
15. What changes would Jefferson wholeheartedly approve?
(a) The Industrial Revolution.
(b) African Americans in positions of power.
(c) The technological advances.
(d) The abolition of slavery.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is ironic about the enforcement of the separation of church and state?
2. What did Jefferson never mean for his writings to do?
3. Jefferson is a follower of Jesus but for what does he not have respect?
4. What does Jefferson do regarding miscegenation?
5. When does this erosion take place?
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