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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Galveston Island - New York City.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Al Edwards Sr. attempt to turn Juneteenth into a statewide celebration in Texas?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1976.

2. When was the first person put to death by lethal injection in Lousiaian?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1994.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1993.

3. How many languages does Dr. Ibrahima Seck speak?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

4. When did members of Petersburg's free Black community purchase the People's Memorial Cemetery?
(a) 1868.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1845.

5. When the Whiteheads sold the land that became Seneca Village, what did a Black shoe shiner named Andrew Williams pay for three plots of land?
(a) $125.
(b) $110.
(c) $150.
(d) $135.

Short Answer Questions

1. What artist designed the statues in the church at Whitney Plantation?

2. When was the Historical African American Cemeteries and Graves Act passed by the Virginia legislature?

3. What is the Black National Anthem?

4. When does myth say that Union general Gordon Granger stood on the balcony of Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and read the order that announced the end of slavery?

5. How many firsthand accounts of formerly enslaved people were collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the late 1930s?

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