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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Goree Island - Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Smith's first visit to Blandford, where did he drive?
(a) Norfolk.
(b) Chesapeake.
(c) Richmond.
(d) Portsmouth.

2. How long was Norris Henderson imprisoned in Angola?
(a) 27 years.
(b) 33 years.
(c) 24 years.
(d) 21 years.

3. When did the State of Louisiana transition from the electric chair to lethal injection?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1991.

4. How many years after Emmett Till was murdered, did Carolyn Bryant, the woman who accused him of accosting her, admit that she lied?
(a) 6 decades later.
(b) 45 years.
(c) 5 decades later.
(d) 65 years.

5. When did the Portuguese arrive on Goree Island?
(a) Around the 1460s.
(b) 1459.
(c) 1472.
(d) As early as the 1440s.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the city of Houston when Jack Yates and his family moved there?

2. How old was Yvonne Holden's grandfather when he and his brother tried to leave Arkansas for Illinois?

3. How old was Emmett Till when he was murdered?

4. When did the Senegalese gain their independence?

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

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