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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 sculpted heads on stakes were on exhibit at the Whitney Plantation?
(a) 55.
(b) 60.
(c) 40.
(d) 45.

2. 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) 2,300.
(d) 1,900.

3. When did Ulrich Bonnell Phillips write that slavery was a benevolent system designed to civilize "an inferior African race" (71)?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1920.

4. How old was Leon A. Waters in the Prologue?
(a) Late 60s.
(b) Early 70s.
(c) 62.
(d) 68.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Black administrators had Angola had by the time Smith visited Angola Prison?

2. What General and his men were urged by the Richmond Examiner to "butcher every negro that Grant sends against your brave troops? (131)?

3. Where is Blandford Cemetery located?

4. How many Union soldiers died at the prison established at Charleston's Washington Race Course and Jackey Club?

5. Of the soldiers buried at Blandford, about how many were identified?

(see the answer key)

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