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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Goree Island - Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) 195 degrees Fahrenheit.
(b) 180 degrees Fahrenheit.
(c) 175 degrees Fahrenheit.
(d) 185 degrees Fahrenheit.

2. Where is Blandford Cemetery located?
(a) Petersburg, Virginia.
(b) Sutherland, Virginia.
(c) Hopewell, Virginia.
(d) Chestervield, Virginia.

3. What artist designed the statues in the church at Whitney Plantation?
(a) Kehinde Wiley.
(b) Sam Gilliam.
(c) Woodrow Nash.
(d) Charles Alston.

4. When did the State of Louisiana transition from the electric chair to lethal injection?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1993.

5. Where was Smith's grandfather born?
(a) Flowood, Mississippi.
(b) Pontotoc, Mississippi.
(c) Monticello, Mississippi.
(d) Booneville, Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Sam Houston, the first president of the Republic of Texas, refuse to swear an oath to the Confederacy?

2. When did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that non-unanimous verdicts were unconstitutional for cases involving serious crimes?

3. When did the children honored at the Field of Angels die in Saint John the Baptist Parish?

4. When was the land that became the Whitney Plantation purchased?

5. What was the average sentence at Angola?

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