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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 have several historians pointed out does not exist between a master and a slave?
(a) Racism.
(b) A hierarchy.
(c) Consensual sex.
(d) Fear.

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

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

4. What is Jefferson's most successful financial enterprise?
(a) Making wagon wheels.
(b) Growing wheat.
(c) Growing tobacco.
(d) Nail making.

5. How long does Jefferson believe the war will last?
(a) About three months.
(b) About four years.
(c) About one year.
(d) About six months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jefferson become, very publicly, while an ambassador in France?

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

3. Who is probably the most beloved and admired of American presidents?

4. With whom does Jefferson exchange a series of passionate love letters?

5. What is Jefferson's most liquid asset?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What two decisions shape his entire life?

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

4. What happens to Virginia under Jefferson's guidance?

5. What story does Jefferson glamorize to benefit himself?

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

7. What do Polly and her mother have in common?

8. Why does Jefferson hate Alexander Hamilton so much?

9. What do John Wales and Thomas Jefferson possibly have in common?

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

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