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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. For how many generations were some of the slaves at Monticello enslaved there?
(a) 5 generations.
(b) 4 generations.
(c) 2 generations.
(d) 3 generations.

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

3. How long did it take to build Jefferson's house at Monticello?
(a) More than 40 years.
(b) 36 years.
(c) 42 years.
(d) About 30 years.

4. When did Jefferson sign an act prohibiting the importation of slaves to the U.S.?
(a) 1807.
(b) 1805.
(c) 1806.
(d) 1808.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Smith visited Monticello, how many of the 89 tour guides were Black?

2. Where did David Thorson's children go to college?

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

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

5. How old was Niya Bates, the director of African American history at Monticello, when Smith visit4ed when the Sally Heminmgs DNA results were released?

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