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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. 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) 1/4.
(b) About 2/3.
(c) Almost 1/2.
(d) 1/3.

2. When did the children honored at the Field of Angels die in Saint John the Baptist Parish?
(a) 1810 to 1850.
(b) 1830 to 1855.
(c) 1800 to 1844.
(d) 1823 through 1863.

3. When Smith visited Angola Prison, what percent of people serving life sentences were Black?
(a) 69%.
(b) 83%.
(c) 71%.
(d) 62%.

4. How many sculpted heads on stakes were on exhibit at the Whitney Plantation?
(a) 40.
(b) 55.
(c) 60.
(d) 45.

5. When did Madison Hemings, Sally Hemings and Jefferson's son give an interview to the Pike County Republican newspaper?
(a) April 30, 1873.
(b) March 1, 1873.
(c) April 19, 1873.
(d) March 13, 1873.

Short Answer Questions

1. During a parade for the Martyrs of the Race Course, how many black schoolchildren led the procession?

2. Where was John J. Crittenden from who introduced what became known as the Crittenden Compromise?

3. When was the land that became the Whitney Plantation purchased?

4. When was the oral history project begun to interview descendants of the enslaved community at Monticello?

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

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