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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1860, how many of the nearly four million enslaved people were under the age of 20?
(a) 62 percent.
(b) 53 percent.
(c) 60 percent.
(d) 57 percent.

2. How old was Jefferson's wife, Martha, when she died?
(a) 29.
(b) 41.
(c) 54.
(d) 33.

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

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

5. How long was Norris Henderson imprisoned in Angola?
(a) 21 years.
(b) 33 years.
(c) 24 years.
(d) 27 years.

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

7. When did John Cummings learn about Whitney Plantation and consider buying it?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1998.

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

9. When was the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history?
(a) 1813.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1810.
(d) 1811.

10. How many plantations did Jefferson have?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

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

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

13. How much money did John Cummings invest in Whitney Planation to make it into a museum?
(a) $7 million.
(b) $10 million.
(c) $15 million.
(d) $12 million.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Monticello first opened to the public?

2. What highway did Smith take to Angola Prison?

3. How old was Leon A. Waters in the Prologue?

4. When was the book The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South published?

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?

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