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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 Sally Hemings children did Jefferson father?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

2. How old was Jefferson's wife, Martha, when she died?
(a) 33.
(b) 54.
(c) 29.
(d) 41.

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

4. When did Ulrich Bonnell Phillips write that slavery was a benevolent system designed to civilize "an inferior African race" (71)?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1918.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Smith interviewed Niya Bates, how long did she say they had been giving esentially the same main tour?

3. How large is the arena for the Angola Prison Rodeo?

4. What Black poet did Jefferson denigrate?

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

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