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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 company precedes him to the Capitol?

2. What changes would Jefferson wholeheartedly approve?

3. Who is Elizabeth Walker?

4. Thomas Payne began as a revolutionary hero. What has he become in just a few years?

5. For what does Jefferson owe $10,000 his first year as president?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is ironic about Jefferson's approval of the separation of church and state?

2. Why might it be possible that this affair took place?

3. Why will scholars still be arguing about Jefferson's legacies well into the 22nd century?

4. How does Jefferson's arrival in Washington, D.C., differ from his arrivals in Philadelphia and Paris?

5. Of what aspects of our culture and government would Jefferson approve?

6. What is the reason for the lack of pomp in his arrival to the Capitol?

7. What do historians verify in the 1950s?

8. What happens between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton?

9. How does Madison Hemings back the claim that Jefferson had an illicit affair with Sally Hemings?

10. What does Jefferson want to eliminate as president?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When the British, led by Benedict Arnold, invade Richmond, Jefferson flees on horseback.

Part 1) Why does he flee?

Part 2) What does the Virginia Assembly do because of this?

Part 3) How does this prove one of many differences exist between Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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