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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How large is the arena for the Angola Prison Rodeo?
(a) 9,000 seats.
(b) 6,000 seats
(c) 7,000 seats.
(d) 4,000 seats.

2. How many people were killed in a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, as they prayed?
(a) 9.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 11.

3. Before the civil war, how many slave cabins were on the Whitney Plantation?
(a) 22.
(b) 28.
(c) 39.
(d) 36.

4. How many slaves did Jefferson sell over the course of his life?
(a) About 50.
(b) More than 100.
(c) 75.
(d) 125.

5. When did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that non-unanimous verdicts were unconstitutional for cases involving serious crimes?
(a) 2019.
(b) 2021.
(c) 2018.
(d) 2020.

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

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

8. When did Madison Hemings, Sally Hemings and Jefferson's son give an interview to the Pike County Republican newspaper?
(a) April 19, 1873.
(b) March 1, 1873.
(c) March 13, 1873.
(d) April 30, 1873.

9. 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 quarter mile.
(c) About half a mile.
(d) About a third of a mile.

10. What was the name of Sally Hemings child who was freed in Jefferson's will?
(a) Beverly.
(b) Madison.
(c) Harriet.
(d) Eston.

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

12. How old was Leon A. Waters in the Prologue?
(a) Early 70s.
(b) Late 60s.
(c) 68.
(d) 62.

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

14. How many slaves did the Madison family have on Monticello Plantation?
(a) 200.
(b) About 150.
(c) More than 300.
(d) 170.

15. When was the oral history project begun to interview descendants of the enslaved community at Monticello?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1993.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many sculpted heads on stakes were on exhibit at the Whitney Plantation?

2. When was Monticello first opened to the public?

3. Where is Whitney Plantation located?

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

5. How many languages does Dr. Ibrahima Seck speak?

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