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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. What does Jefferson know about some of the revisionist history he writes?

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

3. What does Ellis call flexibility and others might call hypocrisy?

4. Who is raising Maria, known as Polly, Jefferson?

5. What is the end result of this planting?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens to Virginia under Jefferson's guidance?

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

5. How does Jefferson speak about and treat his slaves?

6. How is Jefferson's most successful financial enterprise operated?

7. Why might the audience have been too polite to discuss Jefferson's slave ownership and relationship with Sally Hemings?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jefferson idealizes nature.

Part 1) What does he believe about the natural world?

Part 2) What examples from the text show he idealizes nature?

Part 3) Is he correct in his belief? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Jefferson dies in debt.

Part 1) How does he find himself in debt?

Part 2) What does he do to get out of debt?

Part 3) Why does he have a difficult time changing his lifestyle to get out of debt?

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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