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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What artist designed the statues in the church at Whitney Plantation?
(a) Sam Gilliam.
(b) Charles Alston.
(c) Woodrow Nash.
(d) Kehinde Wiley.

2. How old was Yvonne Holden's grandfather when he and his brother tried to leave Arkansas for Illinois?
(a) 12.
(b) 14.
(c) 9.
(d) 16.

3. Where did David Thorson's children go to college?
(a) University of Virginia.
(b) Virginia Commonwealth University.
(c) Williams & Mary.
(d) James Madison University.

4. When Smith interviewed Niya Bates, how long did she say they had been giving esentially the same main tour?
(a) Since the 1940s.
(b) Since the mid-50s.
(c) Since the 1970s.
(d) Since the 1960s.

5. How many Black administrators had Angola had by the time Smith visited Angola Prison?
(a) 6.
(b) 11.
(c) 18.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many plantations did Jefferson have?

2. When was the Historical African American Cemeteries and Graves Act passed by the Virginia legislature?

3. How many years did it take Nora Davidson's Ladies' Memorial Association to exhume bodies of Confederate soldiers and bury them?

4. When did Angola Prison's infamous maximum-security housing unit, Red Hat cell block, close?

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

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