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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 issue does Ellis dismiss as "slanderous assaults?"

2. What does the author find surprising about an evening devoted to Jefferson in 1993?

3. Like many Virginia aristocrats, what does Jefferson equate to land?

4. What does Jefferson idealize?

5. What is Jefferson's most successful financial enterprise?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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. What three articles is he known for writing?

8. To what does the author compare the sexual services required of slaves?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jefferson is chosen to write the Declaration of Independence.

Part 1) Two pamphlets are considered the rough drafts of the Declaration of Independence. What are the names of these pamphlets? Describe them.

Part 2) Why is he chosen to write the Declaration of Independence?

Part 3) How accurate is much of the information in the Declaration of Independence prior to editing? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Jefferson writes revisionist history.

Part 1) What is revisionist history?

Part 2) What revisionist history does he write?

Part 3) Why might he do this?

Essay Topic 3

Jefferson writes the Declaration of independence.

Part 1) How long does it take Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence?

Part 2) Why might it have taken him this amount of time to write it?

Part 3) By what and whom is he inspired? Why?

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