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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 is a key facet of Jefferson's personality?

2. What does Jefferson become, very publicly, while an ambassador in France?

3. Why does the audience not ask questions regarding Jefferson's slave ownership and relationship with Sally Hemings?

4. How much does Jefferson believe the war will cost?

5. Regarding Sally Hemings, of what is Jefferson regularly accused?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Jefferson hate Alexander Hamilton so much?

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

5. Why might, by the standards of Jefferson's day, having an affair with a slave and fathering children by her be considered unethical?

6. What is the author's opinion about Bill Clinton's behavior with Monica Lewinsky?

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

8. What impression does Jefferson's arrival in Paris give the French?

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

10. Why is Jefferson claimed by many individuals with opposing beliefs?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jefferson arrives in Philadelphia and Paris in luxury with a lot of pomp.

Part 1) Why does he choose to enter in this fashion?

Part 2) How does this flashy lifestyle contradict his views?

Part 3) His entrance to Washington, D.C. is very different from that of Philadelphia and Paris. How is it different? Why?

Essay Topic 2

The building of Monticello is one decision that shapes Jefferson's entire life.

Part 1) How does it shape his life?

Part 2) How does this home reflect his views on the ideal life?

Part 3) How does it contradict his views of slavery?

Essay Topic 3

As Secretary of State Jefferson engages in vile public clashes with Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury.

Part 1) Describe Alexander Hamilton.

Part 2) Why does Jefferson detest Hamilton?

Part 3) Who else clashes with Hamilton? Why?

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