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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Blandford Cemetery.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money did John Cummings invest in Whitney Planation to make it into a museum?
(a) $15 million.
(b) $7 million.
(c) $10 million.
(d) $12 million.

2. When was the transatlantic slave trade outlawed?
(a) 1804.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1808.
(d) 1801.

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

4. When did Jefferson publish a history of the Confederacy claiming that slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1883.
(c) 1881.
(d) 1889.

5. How many sets of Confederate remains did the Petersburg Ladies' Memorial Association find?
(a) About 25,000.
(b) Almost 30,000.
(c) 27,000.
(d) 22, 000.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many slaves did Jefferson sell over the course of his life?

2. When was Monticello first opened to the public?

3. From where were the jail cells that sit at the center of Whitney Plantation grounds from originally?

4. Where was John J. Crittenden from who introduced what became known as the Crittenden Compromise?

5. How many Black soldiers fought on behalf of the Union?

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