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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color was a Ku Klux Klan robe Smith saw at a museum in the Epilogue?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Brown.
(d) Red.

2. In 2018, how much tax money was directed toward maintaining Confederate monuments?
(a) $35 million.
(b) At least $40 million.
(c) $45 million.
(d) Around $20 million.

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

4. When was the book The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South published?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1955.

5. When Smith returned to the U.S. from Senegal, what were children doing in photos he took?
(a) Chasing a soccer ball.
(b) Running after hoops with sticks.
(c) Playing marbles.
(d) Chasing chickents.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Black soldiers fought on behalf of the Union?

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

3. What highway did Smith take to Angola Prison?

4. In the Epilogue, at what museum did Smith push his grandfather in a wheelchair?

5. When did the Dutch form New Amsterdam, which became New York City?

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