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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 Black poet did Jefferson denigrate?
(a) Lucy Terry.
(b) Phillis Wheatley.
(c) John Jea.
(d) Jupiter Hammon.

2. In "Monticello Plantation," where was Smith living?
(a) Boston.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) New Orleans.

3. How many people were known to have been enslaved at Whitney Plantation?
(a) 407.
(b) 354.
(c) 391.
(d) 289.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Whitney Plantation located?

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

3. What was the name of Sally Hemings child who was freed in Jefferson's will?

4. When did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that non-unanimous verdicts were unconstitutional for cases involving serious crimes?

5. When was the land that became the Whitney Plantation purchased?

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