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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 did James Hubbard, an enslaved man who worked in Monticello's nail factory run away?
(a) 1808.
(b) Around 1810.
(c) 1809.
(d) During 1811.

2. How many people were killed in a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, as they prayed?
(a) 8.
(b) 9.
(c) 11.
(d) 10.

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

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

5. When was the book The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South published?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1956.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Yvonne Holden's grandfather when he and his brother tried to leave Arkansas for Illinois?

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

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

4. How many lives of enslaved children are honored at the Field of Angels?

5. When was the first person put to death by lethal injection in Lousiaian?

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