View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Smith born and raised?
(a) Baton Rouge.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Mobile.

2. When did Smith make the visits to the places he describes in How the Word is Passed?
(a) Between May 2017 and January 2020.
(b) Between July 2017 and March 2020.
(c) Between November 2017 and April 2020.
(d) Between October 2017 and February 2020.

3. According to historian Donald L. Fixico, how many Indigenous American lived in North American in 1492?
(a) 10 to 20 million.
(b) 25 million.
(c) 8 million.
(d) A few million to 15 million.

4. When did former Confederate general Bradley T. Johnson explain that slavery was an apprenticeship for savage races?
(a) April 11, 1896.
(b) May 18, 1896.
(c) February 22, 1896.
(d) March 9, 1896.

5. Before the civil war, how many slave cabins were on the Whitney Plantation?
(a) 22.
(b) 39.
(c) 36.
(d) 28.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did a Black community once exist in what has become Central Park?

2. What is the Black National Anthem?

3. In 2018, how much tax money was directed toward maintaining Confederate monuments?

4. By 1860, what was the value of the nearly four million enslaved people valued at?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 204 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample