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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 does Jefferson know about some of the revisionist history he writes?
(a) It is false.
(b) It is just.
(c) It is true.
(d) It is inaccurate.

2. Of what is the pamphlet "A Summary of the Rights of British America" a first draft?
(a) Articles of the Confederation.
(b) Declaration of Independence.
(c) Constitution for the Freedom of Colonial America.
(d) Declaration of Treachery by King George III.

3. What family is allowed to live at Mulberry Row?
(a) Those family members with dark skin.
(b) Jefferson's family.
(c) The Hemings family.
(d) His entire slave family.

4. What do both William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow claim about Jefferson?
(a) He shares their views of evolution and creation.
(b) He is a great man.
(c) He shares their architectural style.
(d) He shares their views about human dignity.

5. Why do many men of Jefferson's time refuse to own slaves?
(a) They believe in complete segregation.
(b) They believe slaves spread disease.
(c) On moral grounds.
(d) They abhore those that are not white.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jefferson's most successful financial enterprise?

2. When he is elected president, what does George Washington offer Jefferson?

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

4. Where does Jefferson attend college?

5. Who claims this president?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why might the audience have been too polite to discuss Jefferson's slave ownership and relationship with Sally Hemings?

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

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

5. What does Jefferson do with his companions once they arrive in France?

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

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

8. What two decisions shape his entire life?

9. What two views of Jefferson's about King George III are incompatible?

10. What is Jefferson's ideal Utopian society?

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