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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Smith make the visits to the places he describes in How the Word is Passed?
(a) Between July 2017 and March 2020.
(b) Between November 2017 and April 2020.
(c) Between October 2017 and February 2020.
(d) Between May 2017 and January 2020.

3. According to James Roberts, an enslaved man who fought in the Revolutionary war and was sold in 1783 to a Louisiana plantation, how many women were kept constantly for breeding?
(a) 50 to 60.
(b) 70 to 80.
(c) 40 to 50.
(d) 90 to 100.

4. When did Madison Hemings, Sally Hemings and Jefferson's son give an interview to the Pike County Republican newspaper?
(a) April 30, 1873.
(b) April 19, 1873.
(c) March 13, 1873.
(d) March 1, 1873.

5. When was Mr. Richard Poplar, a Black gentleman, said to have joined the Susex Dragoons?
(a) May 1861.
(b) February 1861.
(c) April 1861.
(d) March 1861.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Niya Bates, the director of African American history at Monticello, when Smith visit4ed when the Sally Heminmgs DNA results were released?

2. How long did it take to build Jefferson's house at Monticello?

3. When Smith interviewed Niya Bates, how long did she say they had been giving esentially the same main tour?

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

5. Between 1774 and 1778 how many births and deaths were among Jefferson's enslaved population?

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