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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children do Patsy and her husband have?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Seven.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

2. What does the author find surprising about an evening devoted to Jefferson in 1993?
(a) 400 people attend, rather than the estimated 40.
(b) The audience is very argumentative about Jefferson's stand on slavery.
(c) The audience has little respect for Jefferson as a president.
(d) 40 people attend, rather than the estimated 400.

3. Why is it difficult for Patsy to love her husband?
(a) He is mentally unstable.
(b) He is never home.
(c) He is the father of his slave's children.
(d) She does not know how to love.

4. What serve as the most enduring record of Jefferson's life?
(a) The letters Jefferson and Madison exchange.
(b) The letter Jefferson and Abigail Adams exchange.
(c) His pamphlets.
(d) The laws he passes as Governor of Virginia.

5. What does Abigail Adams encourage Jefferson to do, regarding his daughter Maria?
(a) To keep her in Virginia.
(b) To let Abigail take her to England.
(c) To bring her to France.
(d) To put her in a boarding school in France.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what descent is Hamilton?

2. Like many Virginia aristocrats, what does Jefferson equate to land?

3. How does Jefferson come to be a minor celebrity?

4. Who does Jefferson sometimes revile as a drunkard and sometimes as a wise, just ruler?

5. Who does Patsy confess to loving more than her husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is the relationship between Jefferson and Hemings a topic?

2. Why are the Hemingses allowed to live at Mulberry Row and work in the house?

3. Why might, by the standards of Jefferson's day, having an affair with a slave and fathering children by her be considered unethical?

4. What do Patsy and Polly have in common?

5. Why does Jefferson not want to return to Philadelphia?

6. Why does Jefferson's plan to plant wheat fail?

7. How is the relationship between Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson?

8. What is known about Jefferson prior to his becoming a political figure?

9. What is Jefferson's ideal Utopian society?

10. How does Martha Wales Jefferson die?

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