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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 John Cummings learn about Whitney Plantation and consider buying it?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1998.

2. When did Jefferson sign an act prohibiting the importation of slaves to the U.S.?
(a) 1807.
(b) 1808.
(c) 1805.
(d) 1806.

3. How many firsthand accounts of formerly enslaved people were collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the late 1930s?
(a) 1,700.
(b) 1,900.
(c) 2,800.
(d) 2,300.

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

5. What was the name of Sally Hemings child who was freed in Jefferson's will?
(a) Madison.
(b) Eston.
(c) Beverly.
(d) Harriet.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Ulrich Bonnell Phillips write that slavery was a benevolent system designed to civilize "an inferior African race" (71)?

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

3. When was the oral history project begun to interview descendants of the enslaved community at Monticello?

4. When was Norris Henderson released from Angola?

5. In the 2013 law suit when three men on death row sued Angola for "appalling and extreme conditions" (111), what was the heat index on death row at times?

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