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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 70 to 80.
(b) 50 to 60.
(c) 40 to 50.
(d) 90 to 100.

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 much money did John Cummings invest in Whitney Planation to make it into a museum?
(a) $12 million.
(b) $7 million.
(c) $15 million.
(d) $10 million.

4. When did Jefferson publish a history of the Confederacy claiming that slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1887.

5. What was the average sentence at Angola?
(a) 90 years.
(b) 87 years.
(c) 84 years.
(d) 79 years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How large is the arena for the Angola Prison Rodeo?

3. When was Blandford Church deconsecrated?

4. How many stained glass windows did Louis Comfort Tiffany create for Blandford Church?

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

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