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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 survived into adulthood?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

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

3. How long did Historian Lucia Stanton work as a historian at Monticello?
(a) 35 years.
(b) Over 3 decades.
(c) 15 years.
(d) Two decades.

4. How long did it take to build Jefferson's house at Monticello?
(a) 42 years.
(b) 36 years.
(c) More than 40 years.
(d) About 30 years.

5. When was the land that became the Whitney Plantation purchased?
(a) 1774.
(b) 1752.
(c) 1749.
(d) 1761.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Black administrators had Angola had by the time Smith visited Angola Prison?

2. From where were the jail cells that sit at the center of Whitney Plantation grounds from originally?

3. What artist designed the statues in the church at Whitney Plantation?

4. How old was Jefferson's wife, Martha, when she died?

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

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