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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Whitney Plantation - Angola Prison.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the State of Louisiana transition from the electric chair to lethal injection?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1990.

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

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

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

5. When was the land that became the Whitney Plantation purchased?
(a) 1761.
(b) 1774.
(c) 1749.
(d) 1752.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did John Cummings learn about Whitney Plantation and consider buying it?

2. At Monticello, how far up a path did Smith have to walk to Jefferson's grave?

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

4. When was the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history?

5. When did Ulrich Bonnell Phillips write that slavery was a benevolent system designed to civilize "an inferior African race" (71)?

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