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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times did an honor guard at the Sons of Confederate Veterans celebration at Blandford shoot their rifles?
(a) 2 times.
(b) 3 times.
(c) 4 times.
(d) 1 time.

2. How long did Historian Lucia Stanton work as a historian at Monticello?
(a) Over 3 decades.
(b) 15 years.
(c) Two decades.
(d) 35 years.

3. In 2018, how much tax money was directed toward maintaining Confederate monuments?
(a) Around $20 million.
(b) At least $40 million.
(c) $45 million.
(d) $35 million.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money did John Cummings invest in Whitney Planation to make it into a museum?

2. During a parade for the Martyrs of the Race Course, how many black schoolchildren led the procession?

3. When did the State of Louisiana take over running Angola?

4. How many Black soldiers were killed after surrendering either during or after the Battle of the Crater?

5. When was the transatlantic slave trade outlawed?

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