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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When he is elected president, what does George Washington offer Jefferson?

2. What serve as the most enduring record of Jefferson's life?

3. How does Jefferson arrive in Paris?

4. What does Abigail Adams provide Jefferson from London?

5. What is Jefferson's attitude towards slavery?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where is the relationship between Jefferson and Hemings a topic?

3. Why does Madison let Jefferson know that his name is being put forth as the Republican Party's candidate for president through coded letters?

4. How is the relationship between Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson?

5. Why does Jefferson not want to return to Philadelphia?

6. How does Martha Wales Jefferson die?

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. Why does Jefferson's plan to plant wheat fail?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jefferson has continued to be one of the most popular presidents in history.

Part 1) What evidence proves this?

Part 2) Why might he be so popular?

Part 3) What other president might also be popular, beloved, and admired? Why?

Essay Topic 2

To Jefferson everything is black or white.

Part 1) Give examples from the text that prove this.

Part 2) Why do you believe he hates compromise?

Part 3) How does this aspect of his personality affect his life and relationships?

Essay Topic 3

Jefferson very publicly becomes a Francophone while in Paris.

Part 1) What is a Francophone?

Part 2) Why and how is Jefferson a Francophone?

Part 3) How does it affect his opinion of the French?

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