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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many languages does Dr. Ibrahima Seck speak?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

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

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

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

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

9. When was the book The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South published?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1954.

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

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

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

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

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

15. How long did Historian Lucia Stanton work as a historian at Monticello?
(a) 15 years.
(b) Two decades.
(c) Over 3 decades.
(d) 35 years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Monticello Plantation," where was Smith living?

3. When Smith visited Angola Prison, what percent of people serving life sentences were Black?

4. How large is the arena for the Angola Prison Rodeo?

5. At Monticello, how far up a path did Smith have to walk to Jefferson's grave?

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