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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the transatlantic slave trade outlawed?
(a) 1808.
(b) 1804.
(c) 1811.
(d) 1801.

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

3. How long did Historian Lucia Stanton work as a historian at Monticello?
(a) Over 3 decades.
(b) 35 years.
(c) 15 years.
(d) Two decades.

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

5. To what Native Americans did the land Monticello sits on belong?
(a) Munsee Lanape.
(b) Monacan.
(c) Choctaw.
(d) Nottoway.

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

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

8. How old was Niya Bates, the director of African American history at Monticello, when Smith visit4ed when the Sally Heminmgs DNA results were released?
(a) Not quite 9.
(b) Around 8.
(c) 7.
(d) 11.

9. In 1860, how many of the nearly four million enslaved people were under the age of 20?
(a) 53 percent.
(b) 60 percent.
(c) 57 percent.
(d) 62 percent.

10. For the first how many years that Monticello was a museum, how were most of the guides Black men dresses as slaves?
(a) 35 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 25 years.

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

12. How many firsthand accounts of formerly enslaved people were collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the late 1930s?
(a) 1,900.
(b) 2,800.
(c) 1,700.
(d) 2,300.

13. Where is Whitney Plantation located?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) South Carolina.

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

15. How many American plantations besides Monticello are on the UNESCO World Heritage List?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

1. What highway did Smith take to Angola Prison?

2. When did the children honored at the Field of Angels die in Saint John the Baptist Parish?

3. When was the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history?

4. How many of Jefferson's descendants are buried in the Jefferson Cemetery?

5. How many lives of enslaved children are honored at the Field of Angels?

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