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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) $7 million.
(b) $10 million.
(c) $12 million.
(d) $15 million.

2. How many slaves did Jefferson sell over the course of his life?
(a) 125.
(b) 75.
(c) More than 100.
(d) About 50.

3. 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) 1 time.
(d) 4 times.

4. How many members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans were suspended in 2002 to 2004 because they spoke out against racism?
(a) 250.
(b) Approximately 300.
(c) 380.
(d) Around 500.

5. When did the State of Louisiana transition from the electric chair to lethal injection?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1992.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did former Confederate general Bradley T. Johnson explain that slavery was an apprenticeship for savage races?

2. When was the book The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South published?

3. How many slaves did the Madison family have on Monticello Plantation?

4. When did Jefferson publish a history of the Confederacy claiming that slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War?

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

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