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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Smith's grandmother born?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1936.

2. What color was a Ku Klux Klan robe Smith saw at a museum in the Epilogue?
(a) White.
(b) Brown.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

3. By 1860, what was the value of the nearly four million enslaved people valued at?
(a) $2.8 million.
(b) $3.5 billion.
(c) $4.9 million.
(d) $4.6 billion.

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

5. How large is the arena for the Angola Prison Rodeo?
(a) 6,000 seats
(b) 7,000 seats.
(c) 4,000 seats.
(d) 9,000 seats.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Black soldiers fought on behalf of the Union?

2. When did Jefferson publish a history of the Confederacy claiming that slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War?

3. According to Joseph T. Glatthaar, historian, in 1861, how many Confederate soldiers either owned slaves or lived with a head of household who did?

4. How old was Smith's grandfather when they got together to talk about the past?

5. When did the first enslaved Africans arrive in America?

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