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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. What governmental position does Alexander Hamilton hold?
(a) Secretary of State.
(b) Secretary of the Treasury.
(c) Surgeon General.
(d) Secretary of the Interior.

2. Who is reportedly the father of Sally Hemings?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) John Wales.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

3. What happens to Martha Wales Jefferson several months after the birth of their daughter Lucy Elizabeth?
(a) She becomes pregnant with their fourth child.
(b) She becomes ill but recovers.
(c) She tells Jefferson she is not having anymore of his children.
(d) She dies.

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

5. What test proves that Ellis's belief that a dalliance is completely out of character for Jefferson is incorrect?
(a) A DRA test.
(b) A Regence test.
(c) A DNA test.
(d) A drug test.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Sally Hemings?

2. What does Abigail Adams provide Jefferson from London?

3. What is the cause of friction for Jefferson?

4. What promise does Martha extract from Jefferson?

5. What is presentism?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jefferson claimed by many individuals with opposing beliefs?

2. How does Martha Wales Jefferson die?

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. How is Jefferson's most successful financial enterprise operated?

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

6. What impression does Jefferson's arrival in Paris give the French?

7. What do Patsy and Polly have in common?

8. What is the author's opinion about Bill Clinton's behavior with Monica Lewinsky?

9. To what does the author compare the sexual services required of slaves?

10. How does Jefferson speak about and treat his slaves?

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