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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. From where were the jail cells that sit at the center of Whitney Plantation grounds from originally?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Virginia.

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

5. In "Monticello Plantation," where was Smith living?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Boston.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) New Orleans.

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

7. When was the first person put to death by lethal injection in Lousiaian?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1994.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1996.

8. How long did it take to build Jefferson's house at Monticello?
(a) 42 years.
(b) 36 years.
(c) More than 40 years.
(d) About 30 years.

9. When Smith visited Angola Prison, what percent of people serving life sentences were Black?
(a) 71%.
(b) 83%.
(c) 62%.
(d) 69%.

10. 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 half a mile.
(d) About two-thirds of a mile.

11. When did Angola Prison's infamous maximum-security housing unit, Red Hat cell block, close?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1971.

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Jefferson sign an act prohibiting the importation of slaves to the U.S.?

2. Where did David Thorson's children go to college?

3. What was the average sentence at Angola?

4. When did James Hubbard, an enslaved man who worked in Monticello's nail factory run away?

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

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