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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 believe creates wars, rather than prevents them?
(a) Guns and other weaponry.
(b) Armies and navies.
(c) The civilians of a country.
(d) The government.

2. Why does the wife of a British minister refer to his administration as "barbaric?"
(a) He eschews all protocol in seating during the dinner parties he hosts.
(b) They are rude and direspectful.
(c) The woman is not allowed in Jefferson's home.
(d) They openly discuss their illicit affairs.

3. How many slaves does Jefferson free in his will?
(a) Only the house slaves.
(b) All of his slaves.
(c) Only the Hemings.
(d) Only five slaves.

4. Who is Sally Hemings?
(a) A slave Jefferson sets free in his will.
(b) A quadroon slave.
(c) Jefferson's second wife.
(d) A slave that works in the fields at Monticello.

5. Who handles the negotiations with the French?
(a) Burr.
(b) Adams.
(c) Madison.
(d) Jefferson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is ironic about the enforcement of the separation of church and state?

2. Who constantly attends Jefferson at Monticello?

3. What does Ellis believe about the relationship of Jefferson and Sally after the story becomes so public?

4. What does Ellis say about Sally's last two children, Madison and Eston?

5. When do historians discover Jefferson is at Monticello with Sally nine months before she gives birth to each of her children?

Short Essay Questions

1. Of what aspects of our culture and government would Jefferson approve?

2. How do Jefferson and Adams begin to reconcile their friendship?

3. How does Jefferson spend his retirement?

4. What does John Adams mean by "Thomas Jefferson lives"?

5. How are Jefferson's views of slavery at this point in his life?

6. What is the reason for the lack of pomp in his arrival to the Capitol?

7. Why does Ellis believe this affair is out of Jefferson's character?

8. What happens between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton?

9. Why does Jefferson make the Louisiana Purchase?

10. What do historians verify in the 1950s?

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