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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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) 7.
(c) 11.
(d) Around 8.

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

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

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

11. How much was Norris Henderson paid for working in the field when he was at Angola?
(a) 6 cents an hour.
(b) 5 cents an hour.
(c) 8 cents an hour.
(d) 7 cents an hour.

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

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

14. How deep did slaves have to dig for water before water was found at Monticello?
(a) 30 feet.
(b) 70 feet.
(c) 20 feet.
(d) 65 feet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of Sally Hemings children survived into adulthood?

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

3. How long did Historian Lucia Stanton work as a historian at Monticello?

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

5. What Black poet did Jefferson denigrate?

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