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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 does Jefferson arrive in Paris?
(a) In an elaborate, handcrafted, phaeton that is fancier than the one that conveyed him to Philadelphia.
(b) In a simple two-wheeled carriage.
(c) Secretly in the night.
(d) In a parade.

2. Who is raising Maria, known as Polly, Jefferson?
(a) Slaves in Virginia.
(b) John Wales.
(c) John Adams.
(d) Ben Franklin.

3. What is the Boston Tea Party?
(a) A fundraiser for the city of Boston.
(b) A tea store in Boston.
(c) A gathering of colonists to peacefully protest British rule.
(d) A prank by a group of hooligans.

4. Who claims this president?
(a) Liberals and conservatives.
(b) Republicans.
(c) His wife, Martha Wales.
(d) Democrats.

5. Who does Jefferson sometimes revile as a drunkard and sometimes as a wise, just ruler?
(a) Mary, Queen of Scots.
(b) King Louis XVI.
(c) King George III.
(d) Queen Victoria.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What affect does Jefferson's term as Governor of Virginia have on the state?

3. What does Ellis call flexibility and others might call hypocrisy?

4. What do both Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover claim about Jefferson?

5. What is Jefferson's refuge from troubled times?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Jefferson's ideal Utopian society?

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

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

4. What three articles is he known for writing?

5. What do Patsy and Polly have in common?

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

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

8. How does Martha Wales Jefferson die?

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

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

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