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

2. How many of Jefferson's descendants are buried in the Jefferson Cemetery?
(a) 280.
(b) 240.
(c) Roughly 200.
(d) About 250.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What percent of those at Angola did Norris believe were convicted by split juries?

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

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