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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. What was the average sentence at Angola?
(a) 87 years.
(b) 79 years.
(c) 90 years.
(d) 84 years.

2. How many people were killed in a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, as they prayed?
(a) 9.
(b) 8.
(c) 11.
(d) 10.

3. How large is the arena for the Angola Prison Rodeo?
(a) 4,000 seats.
(b) 6,000 seats
(c) 9,000 seats.
(d) 7,000 seats.

4. When was the transatlantic slave trade outlawed?
(a) 1804.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1801.
(d) 1808.

5. How many sculpted heads on stakes were on exhibit at the Whitney Plantation?
(a) 40.
(b) 60.
(c) 45.
(d) 55.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Monticello Plantation," where was Smith living?

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

3. How much money did John Cummings invest in Whitney Planation to make it into a museum?

4. How many people were known to have been enslaved at Whitney Plantation?

5. When did Madison Hemings, Sally Hemings and Jefferson's son give an interview to the Pike County Republican newspaper?

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