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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 Smith attended a Juneteenth celebration, how long had Kathy Tiernan been organizing the programs?
(a) 12 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) A decade.
(d) Half a dozen years.

2. When did complete abolition come to New York?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1839.
(c) 1842.
(d) 1841.

3. When did the Dutch form New Amsterdam, which became New York City?
(a) 1603.
(b) 1631.
(c) 1617.
(d) 1624.

4. In Richmond, what size is the Robert E. Lee statue?
(a) 18 feet tall.
(b) 27 feet tall.
(c) 12 feet tall.
(d) 21 feet tall.

5. At the time Smith wrote How the Word Is Passed, how long had Sue Johnson been organizing the Juneteenth event?
(a) Not quite 20 years.
(b) 25 years.
(c) About 30 years.
(d) 33 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Norris Henderson released from Angola?

2. When did the first enslaved Africans arrive in America?

3. When was the land that became the Whitney Plantation purchased?

4. When did Laura Martin Rose, historian and president of the UDC's Mississippi chapter, publish The Ku Klux Klan; or, Invisible Empire?

5. When did Angola Prison's infamous maximum-security housing unit, Red Hat cell block, close?

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