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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did James Hubbard, an enslaved man who worked in Monticello's nail factory run away?
(a) During 1811.
(b) 1808.
(c) 1809.
(d) Around 1810.

3. According to Joseph T. Glatthaar, historian, in 1861, how many Confederate soldiers either owned slaves or lived with a head of household who did?
(a) About 2/3.
(b) Almost 1/2.
(c) 1/3.
(d) 1/4.

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

5. Before Lincoln was inaugurated, how many states seceded from the Union?
(a) 7.
(b) 4.
(c) 9.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 2013 law suit when three men on death row sued Angola for "appalling and extreme conditions" (111), what was the heat index on death row at times?

2. How many slaves did Jefferson sell over the course of his life?

3. When was Mr. Richard Poplar, a Black gentleman, said to have joined the Susex Dragoons?

4. In "Monticello Plantation," where was Smith living?

5. When was the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history?

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