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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 decide to plant in the place of tobacco?

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

3. Who is Sally Hemings?

4. What have several historians pointed out does not exist between a master and a slave?

5. What is the end result of this planting?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is known about Jefferson prior to his becoming a political figure?

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

3. What do Polly and her mother have in common?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Jefferson hate Alexander Hamilton so much?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One of Jefferson's primary goals is the elimination of the national debt.

Part 1) Of what does he see this as the cause?

Part 2) He is determined to eliminate the national debt and one of his cost-saving measures is dismantling the U.S. Navy. Why does he believe this is a good cost-saving measure?

Part 3) How does this course of action prove to be almost disastrous?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Jefferson loves his wife, but he finds a woman who is a rare equal.

Part 1) Who is this woman?

Part 2) How is she the equal of Jefferson?

Part 3) What type of relationship do these two have?

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