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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 Monticello first opened to the public?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1923.

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

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Historian Lucia Stanton work as a historian at Monticello?

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

3. How many of Jefferson's descendants are buried in the Jefferson Cemetery?

4. How many slaves did the Madison family have on Monticello Plantation?

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

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