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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Galveston Island - New York City.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Norris Henderson released from Angola?
(a) 2007.
(b) 2003.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2005.

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

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

4. In 1850, how many Black people owned property in New York City?
(a) 57.
(b) 48.
(c) 71.
(d) 62.

5. How much was Norris Henderson paid for working in the field when he was at Angola?
(a) 7 cents an hour.
(b) 5 cents an hour.
(c) 6 cents an hour.
(d) 8 cents an hour.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time Smith wrote How the Word Is Passed, how long had Sue Johnson been organizing the Juneteenth event?

2. When was the United Daughters of the Confederacy founded?

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

4. When Smith visited Monticello, how many of the 89 tour guides were Black?

5. When was the book The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South published?

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