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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. From where were the jail cells that sit at the center of Whitney Plantation grounds from originally?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Illinois.

2. To what Native Americans did the land Monticello sits on belong?
(a) Monacan.
(b) Nottoway.
(c) Munsee Lanape.
(d) Choctaw.

3. How many lives of enslaved children are honored at the Field of Angels?
(a) 2,700.
(b) 2,200.
(c) 1,800.
(d) 1,100.

4. For the first how many years that Monticello was a museum, how were most of the guides Black men dresses as slaves?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 35 years.

5. How long did it take to build Jefferson's house at Monticello?
(a) 42 years.
(b) More than 40 years.
(c) 36 years.
(d) About 30 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history?

2. How many plantations did Jefferson have?

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?

4. When did the State of Louisiana take over running Angola?

5. When did Louisiana begin using the electric chair?

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