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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Author's Note - Monticello Plantation.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Madison Hemings, Sally Hemings and Jefferson's son give an interview to the Pike County Republican newspaper?
(a) April 30, 1873.
(b) April 19, 1873.
(c) March 1, 1873.
(d) March 13, 1873.

3. How many of Sally Hemings children survived into adulthood?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

4. How old was Niya Bates, the director of African American history at Monticello, when Smith visit4ed when the Sally Heminmgs DNA results were released?
(a) Around 8.
(b) 7.
(c) Not quite 9.
(d) 11.

5. When was the oral history project begun to interview descendants of the enslaved community at Monticello?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1992.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Smith make the visits to the places he describes in How the Word is Passed?

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

3. For the first how many years that Monticello was a museum, how were most of the guides Black men dresses as slaves?

4. What was the name of Sally Hemings child who was freed in Jefferson's will?

5. For how many generations were some of the slaves at Monticello enslaved there?

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