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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. How many of Sally Hemings children did Jefferson father?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

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

3. How long did Historian Lucia Stanton work as a historian at Monticello?
(a) Over 3 decades.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 35 years.
(d) Two decades.

4. Between 1774 and 1778 how many births and deaths were among Jefferson's enslaved population?
(a) 15 births and 8 deaths.
(b) 28 births and 15 deaths.
(c) 25 births and 18 deaths.
(d) 22 births and 12 deaths.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How deep did slaves have to dig for water before water was found at Monticello?

4. When did James Hubbard, an enslaved man who worked in Monticello's nail factory run away?

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

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