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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. When did Ulrich Bonnell Phillips write that slavery was a benevolent system designed to civilize "an inferior African race" (71)?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1920.

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

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

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

9. 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) 90 to 100.
(b) 50 to 60.
(c) 70 to 80.
(d) 40 to 50.

10. How many people were known to have been enslaved at Whitney Plantation?
(a) 391.
(b) 407.
(c) 289.
(d) 354.

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

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

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

14. 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) 11.
(d) 7.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did David Thorson, the guide at Monticello, do before becoming a tour guide?

2. What highway did Smith take to Angola Prison?

3. For the first how many years that Monticello was a museum, how were most of the guides Black men dresses as slaves?

4. When did the State of Louisiana take over running Angola?

5. Between 1774 and 1778 how many births and deaths were among Jefferson's enslaved population?

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