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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. Where is Jefferson the most popular historical figure?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Virginia.
(c) On the internet.
(d) Pennsylvania.

2. What does Ellis believe about the relationship of Jefferson and Sally after the story becomes so public?
(a) There is never a relationship, so nothing changes about their relationship as slave owner and slave.
(b) It becomes stronger after the allegations become public.
(c) If there had been an affair, he would have ended after it became public knowledge.
(d) It continues, because he is the father of her last two children.

3. What does Jefferson do regarding miscegenation?
(a) He passes a law to preserve it.
(b) He repeatedly speaks out about its evils.
(c) He practices miscegenation.
(d) He encourages it.

4. Within the scholarly world what is the consensus regarding the story about Jefferson and Sally Hemings?
(a) They believe it to be a possibility.
(b) They believe it to be most certainly not true.
(c) They believe it to be the truth.
(d) They believe it to be absolutely true.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Jefferson disapprove of since his death?

2. What is one of Jefferson's primary goals?

3. With what does Jefferson's election coincide?

4. When is there an increase in U.S. military might?

5. By whom does Jefferson subsidize libelous accusations against Adams?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jefferson's arrival in Washington, D.C., differ from his arrivals in Philadelphia and Paris?

2. Why is Jefferson accused, inaccurately, of being an atheist?

3. Why is Jefferson's second term in office less successful than his first?

4. What happens between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton?

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

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

7. What is remarkable about the deaths of Jefferson and Adams?

8. Who are the last two surviving Founding Fathers, and how are they treated?

9. How does Ellis feel about the accusations that Jefferson has an illicit affair with his slave, Sally Hemings?

10. What do historians verify in the 1950s?

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