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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. According to James Roberts, an enslaved man who fought in the Revolutionary war and was sold in 1783 to a Louisiana plantation, how many women were kept constantly for breeding?
(a) 50 to 60.
(b) 90 to 100.
(c) 70 to 80.
(d) 40 to 50.

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

3. How deep did slaves have to dig for water before water was found at Monticello?
(a) 20 feet.
(b) 70 feet.
(c) 65 feet.
(d) 30 feet.

4. What highway did Smith take to Angola Prison?
(a) I-59.
(b) I-10.
(c) I-12.
(d) I-49.

5. How many languages does Dr. Ibrahima Seck speak?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Leon A. Waters in the Prologue?

2. In 1860, how many of the nearly four million enslaved people were under the age of 20?

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

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

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

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