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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Whitney Plantation - Angola Prison.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Monticello first opened to the public?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1897.

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 May 2017 and January 2020.
(c) Between October 2017 and February 2020.
(d) Between November 2017 and April 2020.

3. When did Angola Prison's infamous maximum-security housing unit, Red Hat cell block, close?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1973.

4. How old was Niya Bates, the director of African American history at Monticello, when Smith visit4ed when the Sally Heminmgs DNA results were released?
(a) Not quite 9.
(b) Around 8.
(c) 11.
(d) 7.

5. What was the average sentence at Angola?
(a) 84 years.
(b) 79 years.
(c) 90 years.
(d) 87 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were known to have been enslaved at Whitney Plantation?

2. How many languages does Dr. Ibrahima Seck speak?

3. How old was Leon A. Waters in the Prologue?

4. When did Louisiana begin using the electric chair?

5. In 1860, how many of the nearly four million enslaved people were under the age of 20?

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