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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. When was the book The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South published?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1956.

2. To what Native Americans did the land Monticello sits on belong?
(a) Monacan.
(b) Munsee Lanape.
(c) Nottoway.
(d) Choctaw.

3. When Smith interviewed Niya Bates, how long did she say they had been giving esentially the same main tour?
(a) Since the 1970s.
(b) Since the 1960s.
(c) Since the mid-50s.
(d) Since the 1940s.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Before the civil war, how many slave cabins were on the Whitney Plantation?

3. How many people were killed in a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, as they prayed?

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

5. Compared to the entrance hall to Jefferson's mansion, what size was the replica slave quarters at Monticello?

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