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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 Smith visited Angola Prison, what percent of people serving life sentences were Black?
(a) 71%.
(b) 83%.
(c) 69%.
(d) 62%.

2. How many firsthand accounts of formerly enslaved people were collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the late 1930s?
(a) 2,300.
(b) 1,900.
(c) 1,700.
(d) 2,800.

3. Before the civil war, how many slave cabins were on the Whitney Plantation?
(a) 39.
(b) 36.
(c) 28.
(d) 22.

4. When did the children honored at the Field of Angels die in Saint John the Baptist Parish?
(a) 1823 through 1863.
(b) 1810 to 1850.
(c) 1830 to 1855.
(d) 1800 to 1844.

5. When Smith visited Monticello, how many of the 89 tour guides were Black?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much was Norris Henderson paid for working in the field when he was at Angola?

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

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

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

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