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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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 encourage illicit affairs.
(d) To justify wars.

5. What does Jefferson think about the white race?
(a) It reigns supreme.
(b) It is not a race.
(c) It is an arrogant race.
(d) It is equal to all races.

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

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

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

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

10. Of what is Jefferson the symbol?
(a) Revolutionary fervor and America's premier idealist.
(b) Dichotomies and stubbornness.
(c) Fatherly love and loyalty.
(d) The anti-slavery movement.

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

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

13. What closes all ports in the U.S. to trade and is an economically crippling move?
(a) The Embargo Act.
(b) An attack by the British.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) An attack by the French.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jefferson lead?

3. By whom does Jefferson subsidize libelous accusations against Adams?

4. What happens between France and England in 1803?

5. What does Jefferson announce, almost immediately, after the Embargo Act is passed?

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