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

2. How much was Norris Henderson paid for working in the field when he was at Angola?
(a) 5 cents an hour.
(b) 6 cents an hour.
(c) 8 cents an hour.
(d) 7 cents an hour.

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

4. From where were the jail cells that sit at the center of Whitney Plantation grounds from originally?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Pennsylvania.

5. When did Angola Prison's infamous maximum-security housing unit, Red Hat cell block, close?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1970.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the first person put to death by lethal injection in Lousiaian?

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

3. How many lives of enslaved children are honored at the Field of Angels?

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

5. When was the book The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South published?

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