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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many of Sally Hemings children did Jefferson father?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

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

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

5. 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) 40 to 50.
(b) 70 to 80.
(c) 90 to 100.
(d) 50 to 60.

6. 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?
(a) 175 degrees Fahrenheit.
(b) 180 degrees Fahrenheit.
(c) 195 degrees Fahrenheit.
(d) 185 degrees Fahrenheit.

7. How many of Jefferson's descendants are buried in the Jefferson Cemetery?
(a) 240.
(b) About 250.
(c) 280.
(d) Roughly 200.

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

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

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

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

12. When did James Hubbard, an enslaved man who worked in Monticello's nail factory run away?
(a) Around 1810.
(b) 1809.
(c) During 1811.
(d) 1808.

13. When Smith interviewed Niya Bates, how long did she say they had been giving esentially the same main tour?
(a) Since the mid-50s.
(b) Since the 1970s.
(c) Since the 1960s.
(d) Since the 1940s.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1860, how many of the nearly four million enslaved people were under the age of 20?

2. What percent of those at Angola did Norris believe were convicted by split juries?

3. For how many generations were some of the slaves at Monticello enslaved there?

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

5. When was Monticello first opened to the public?

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