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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money did John Cummings invest in Whitney Planation to make it into a museum?
(a) $10 million.
(b) $12 million.
(c) $7 million.
(d) $15 million.

2. When Smith interviewed Niya Bates, how long did she say they had been giving esentially the same main tour?
(a) Since the mid-50s.
(b) Since the 1970s.
(c) Since the 1940s.
(d) Since the 1960s.

3. How many plantations did Jefferson have?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

4. How many languages does Dr. Ibrahima Seck speak?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

5. 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.

6. How old was Yvonne Holden's grandfather when he and his brother tried to leave Arkansas for Illinois?
(a) 9.
(b) 12.
(c) 16.
(d) 14.

7. How many lives of enslaved children are honored at the Field of Angels?
(a) 1,800.
(b) 2,700.
(c) 1,100.
(d) 2,200.

8. When did a DNA test indicate that the father of Sally Heming's youngest child was fathered by Jefferson?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1998.
(c) 2008.
(d) 2001.

9. Between 1774 and 1778 how many births and deaths were among Jefferson's enslaved population?
(a) 25 births and 18 deaths.
(b) 28 births and 15 deaths.
(c) 22 births and 12 deaths.
(d) 15 births and 8 deaths.

10. 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) 40 to 50.
(b) 90 to 100.
(c) 50 to 60.
(d) 70 to 80.

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

12. At Monticello, how far up a path did Smith have to walk to Jefferson's grave?
(a) About two-thirds of a mile.
(b) About a third of a mile.
(c) About half a mile.
(d) About a quarter mile.

13. What Black poet did Jefferson denigrate?
(a) Lucy Terry.
(b) Phillis Wheatley.
(c) Jupiter Hammon.
(d) John Jea.

14. When was Monticello first opened to the public?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1923.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Angola Prison's infamous maximum-security housing unit, Red Hat cell block, close?

2. How many firsthand accounts of formerly enslaved people were collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the late 1930s?

3. How old was Leon A. Waters in the Prologue?

4. When did the State of Louisiana transition from the electric chair to lethal injection?

5. How old was Niya Bates, the director of African American history at Monticello, when Smith visit4ed when the Sally Heminmgs DNA results were released?

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