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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 Angola Prison's infamous maximum-security housing unit, Red Hat cell block, close?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1972.

2. What color uniforms did Blacks wear in the Union Army?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Black.
(d) Brown.

3. How many years did it take Nora Davidson's Ladies' Memorial Association to exhume bodies of Confederate soldiers and bury them?
(a) 12 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 5 years.

4. How many people were known to have been enslaved at Whitney Plantation?
(a) 407.
(b) 391.
(c) 354.
(d) 289.

5. Where is Whitney Plantation located?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) South Carolina.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How many Union soldiers died at the prison established at Charleston's Washington Race Course and Jackey Club?

5. Between 1774 and 1778 how many births and deaths were among Jefferson's enslaved population?

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