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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Black poet did Jefferson denigrate?
(a) Lucy Terry.
(b) John Jea.
(c) Jupiter Hammon.
(d) Phillis Wheatley.

2. When Smith visited Angola Prison, what percent of people serving life sentences were Black?
(a) 71%.
(b) 69%.
(c) 83%.
(d) 62%.

3. How many firsthand accounts of formerly enslaved people were collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the late 1930s?
(a) 1,700.
(b) 2,800.
(c) 1,900.
(d) 2,300.

4. How old was Jefferson's wife, Martha, when she died?
(a) 33.
(b) 54.
(c) 29.
(d) 41.

5. What artist designed the statues in the church at Whitney Plantation?
(a) Charles Alston.
(b) Sam Gilliam.
(c) Kehinde Wiley.
(d) Woodrow Nash.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did David Thorson, the guide at Monticello, do before becoming a tour guide?

3. How many sculpted heads on stakes were on exhibit at the Whitney Plantation?

4. How many plantations did Jefferson have?

5. Before the civil war, how many slave cabins were on the Whitney Plantation?

(see the answer key)

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