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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Napoleon enter into negotiations to sell what is called the Louisiana Purchase?
(a) He fears the U.S.
(b) He is friends with Jefferson.
(c) He needs cash to fund European wars.
(d) He does not like the North American soil.

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

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

4. Politicians have long been subjected to what type of rumors?
(a) Rumors of financial scandal.
(b) Rumors of abuse scandal.
(c) Rumors of sexual scandal.
(d) Rumors of political scandal.

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

6. In what tradition does Jefferson regard all political power as inherently corrupting?
(a) The Whig tradition.
(b) The Christian tradition.
(c) The Federalist tradition.
(d) The Republican tradition.

7. What does Jefferson believe creates wars, rather than prevents them?
(a) The government.
(b) Armies and navies.
(c) The civilians of a country.
(d) Guns and other weaponry.

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

9. With what does Jefferson's election coincide?
(a) The death of Benjamin Franklin.
(b) The War of 1812.
(c) A new sense of nationalism in the U.S.
(d) A new sense of isolationism in the U.S.

10. Of what is Jefferson the founder?
(a) The University of the District of Columbia.
(b) The College of William and Mary.
(c) The University of Miami.
(d) The University of Virginia.

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

12. Who reports the information about Elizabeth Walker with accuracy?
(a) John Adams.
(b) James Madison.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) James Callender.

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

14. What coincides with the start of Jefferson's supposed affair with Sally?
(a) His withdrawal from a leadership position in the antislavery movement.
(b) His move to Paris.
(c) The birth of his last daughter.
(d) His gain of the presidency.

15. 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 to violently.
(d) That it happens so quickly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the wife of a British minister refer to his administration as "barbaric?"

2. What does Jefferson do with the 1,000 letters he receives each year?

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

4. What does Jefferson believe the vastness of the western territories would do to slavery?

5. What changes would Jefferson wholeheartedly approve?

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