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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the average sentence at Angola?
(a) 79 years.
(b) 84 years.
(c) 90 years.
(d) 87 years.

2. What highway did Smith take to Angola Prison?
(a) I-49.
(b) I-59.
(c) I-12.
(d) I-10.

3. How many Black administrators had Angola had by the time Smith visited Angola Prison?
(a) 11.
(b) 1.
(c) 6.
(d) 18.

4. What did David Thorson, the guide at Monticello, do before becoming a tour guide?
(a) Served for more than 25 years in the Marines.
(b) Served for more than 30 years in the Air Force.
(c) Served for more than 25 years in the Army.
(d) Served for more than 30 years in the U.S. Navy.

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

6. When was Norris Henderson released from Angola?
(a) 2007.
(b) 2003.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2005.

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

8. What artist designed the statues in the church at Whitney Plantation?
(a) Kehinde Wiley.
(b) Charles Alston.
(c) Woodrow Nash.
(d) Sam Gilliam.

9. What percent of those at Angola did Norris believe were convicted by split juries?
(a) 45 percent.
(b) 25 percent.
(c) 35 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

10. When did Louisiana begin using the electric chair?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1939.

11. Where was Smith born and raised?
(a) Baton Rouge.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Mobile.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Black poet did Jefferson denigrate?

2. How many of Sally Hemings children did Jefferson father?

3. How much was Norris Henderson paid for working in the field when he was at Angola?

4. When did a DNA test indicate that the father of Sally Heming's youngest child was fathered by Jefferson?

5. In the 2013 law suit when three men on death row sued Angola for "appalling and extreme conditions" (111), what was the heat index on death row at times?

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