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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 is the nickname Ellis gives for Sally Hemings?
(a) White Sally.
(b) Silly Sally.
(c) Black Sal.
(d) Sally Forth.

2. What does Jefferson become, very publicly, while an ambassador in France?
(a) A Francophile.
(b) A Christian.
(c) A hypocrite.
(d) A Democrat.

3. Who accompanied Jefferson to France?
(a) His three daughters.
(b) His daughter Martha, known as Patsy, and a slave named James Hemings.
(c) John Adams and Ben Franklin.
(d) Sally Hemings.

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

5. How much does Jefferson believe the war will cost?
(a) $6 million.
(b) $6 billion.
(c) $3 billion.
(d) $3 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is little known about Jefferson's early history?

2. What does Jefferson idealize?

3. When does Polly die?

4. Who is reportedly the father of Sally Hemings?

5. When it comes to Jefferson's writing, what does he not like?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 hate Alexander Hamilton so much?

4. What two decisions shape his entire life?

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

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

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

8. Why does Martha force Jefferson to promise to never remarry?

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

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

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