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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Smith make the visits to the places he describes in How the Word is Passed?
(a) Between July 2017 and March 2020.
(b) Between November 2017 and April 2020.
(c) Between May 2017 and January 2020.
(d) Between October 2017 and February 2020.

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

4. How many sculpted heads on stakes were on exhibit at the Whitney Plantation?
(a) 60.
(b) 40.
(c) 55.
(d) 45.

5. When did the children honored at the Field of Angels die in Saint John the Baptist Parish?
(a) 1810 to 1850.
(b) 1823 through 1863.
(c) 1830 to 1855.
(d) 1800 to 1844.

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

7. At Monticello, how far up a path did Smith have to walk to Jefferson's grave?
(a) About half a mile.
(b) About two-thirds of a mile.
(c) About a quarter mile.
(d) About a third of a mile.

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

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

10. What Black poet did Jefferson denigrate?
(a) Phillis Wheatley.
(b) Lucy Terry.
(c) Jupiter Hammon.
(d) John Jea.

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

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

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

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

15. When Smith visited Monticello, how many of the 89 tour guides were Black?
(a) 5.
(b) 8.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many of Sally Hemings children did Jefferson father?

3. To what Native Americans did the land Monticello sits on belong?

4. How old was Niya Bates, the director of African American history at Monticello, when Smith visit4ed when the Sally Heminmgs DNA results were released?

5. Where was Smith born and raised?

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