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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. How does Ellis feel about presentism?

2. Why is little known about Jefferson's early history?

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

4. How would Jefferson have gone through life, if his pamphlet had not been published?

5. What does Jefferson argue should be eliminated from the Constitution of the new nation?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Jefferson hate Alexander Hamilton so much?

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

4. What are two central features of Jefferson's personality?

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

6. What is Jefferson's ideal Utopian society?

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

8. What two decisions shape his entire life?

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

10. What three articles is he known for writing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

An accusation that historians still debate to this day is that of the relationship between Jefferson and Sally Hemings.

Part 1) Of what is he accused?

Part 2) What is the evidence of the relationship?

Part 3) Character flaws are a part of humanity. Why do scholars, historians, and the general public still debate this relationship?

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 writes revisionist history.

Part 1) What is revisionist history?

Part 2) What revisionist history does he write?

Part 3) Why might he do this?

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