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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) Four.
(b) Seven.
(c) Eleven.
(d) One.

2. What is the reason the author gives for the contradiction between Jefferson's opinion of slavery and his owning of slaves?
(a) He believes in human dignity for those that are of European descent, as long as they do not own slaves.
(b) He enjoys an easier life by owning slaves, therefore he is pro-slavery.
(c) He believes in human dignity and freedom, as long as it does not conflict with his own wealth and comfort.
(d) He is against slavery but owns them because he feels pressure to do so.

3. Who does Jefferson refer to his slaves?
(a) As his "extended family."
(b) As his property.
(c) As members of society.
(d) As the bane of his existence.

4. What promise does Martha extract from Jefferson?
(a) To end his affair with Sally.
(b) To send his children to expensive boarding schools.
(c) To go back to Philadelphia to be a member of the Continental Congress.
(d) A deathbed promise to not remarry.

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 drug test.
(d) A DNA test.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Jefferson's nail-making laborer's are compared to what author's characters?

3. How does Jefferson arrive in Philadelphia for the first Continental Congress?

4. Regarding Sally Hemings, of what is Jefferson regularly accused?

5. What two decisions shape Jefferson's entire life?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why might the author be surprised by the number of people who attend the evening devoted to Jefferson?

3. What are two central features of Jefferson's personality?

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

5. Why does Jefferson hate Alexander Hamilton so much?

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

7. What are two of Jefferson's untruths in his pamphlets?

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

9. How does Martha Wales Jefferson die?

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

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