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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. Why does Napoleon enter into negotiations to sell what is called the Louisiana Purchase?
(a) He is friends with Jefferson.
(b) He fears the U.S.
(c) He needs cash to fund European wars.
(d) He does not like the North American soil.

2. Who is Elizabeth Walker?
(a) Jefferson's youngest daughter.
(b) A woman that Jefferson makes improper adavances to when he is a young, unmarried man.
(c) A woman with whom Alexander Hamilton has an illicit affair.
(d) Sally Hemings' sister.

3. What does Jefferson believe the vastness of the western territories would do to slavery?
(a) Have nothing to do with slavery.
(b) Encourage it.
(c) Embrace it.
(d) Dissipate it.

4. How are John Adam's last words factually incorrect?
(a) The Founding Fathers have all died.
(b) There is still one Founding Father alive.
(c) Jefferson dies about five hours earlier than Adams.
(d) Jefferson dies about five hours after Adams.

5. Who is Jefferson's vice president?
(a) James Monroe.
(b) James Madison.
(c) Aaron Burr.
(d) Alexander Hamilton.

Short Answer Questions

1. How would Jefferson feel about increased military might?

2. What does the previous administration rename Washington's Goose Creek?

3. When does Jefferson permanently retire to Monticello?

4. What legacy of Jefferson's lives on?

5. Who prints scurrilous, vengeful allegations against Jefferson?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does James Callender play in this scandal?

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

3. Why does Jefferson retreat to Poplar Forest?

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

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

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

7. What is ironic about Jefferson's approval of the separation of church and state?

8. Why will scholars still be arguing about Jefferson's legacies well into the 22nd century?

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

10. Why does Jefferson make the Louisiana Purchase?

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