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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Blandford Cemetery.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Ulrich Bonnell Phillips write that slavery was a benevolent system designed to civilize "an inferior African race" (71)?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1917.

2. How many sets of Confederate remains did the Petersburg Ladies' Memorial Association find?
(a) Almost 30,000.
(b) 22, 000.
(c) About 25,000.
(d) 27,000.

3. 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.

4. How many of Sally Hemings children survived into adulthood?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many firsthand accounts of formerly enslaved people were collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the late 1930s?

3. How old was Niya Bates, the director of African American history at Monticello, when Smith visit4ed when the Sally Heminmgs DNA results were released?

4. How many languages does Dr. Ibrahima Seck speak?

5. How many Black soldiers fought on behalf of the Union?

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