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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. When did Smith make the visits to the places he describes in How the Word is Passed?
(a) Between May 2017 and January 2020.
(b) Between November 2017 and April 2020.
(c) Between July 2017 and March 2020.
(d) Between October 2017 and February 2020.

2. Where was Smith born and raised?
(a) Baton Rouge.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Mobile.

3. How many slaves did Jefferson sell over the course of his life?
(a) About 50.
(b) 75.
(c) 125.
(d) More than 100.

4. When was the transatlantic slave trade outlawed?
(a) 1811.
(b) 1808.
(c) 1804.
(d) 1801.

5. When did James Hubbard, an enslaved man who worked in Monticello's nail factory run away?
(a) 1809.
(b) Around 1810.
(c) During 1811.
(d) 1808.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How long did Historian Lucia Stanton work as a historian at Monticello?

4. How old was Jefferson's wife, Martha, when she died?

5. How many of Sally Hemings children survived into adulthood?

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