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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was a slave market established on Wall Street?
(a) 1709.
(b) 1703.
(c) 1717.
(d) 1711.

2. In 2018, how much tax money was directed toward maintaining Confederate monuments?
(a) Around $20 million.
(b) $45 million.
(c) At least $40 million.
(d) $35 million.

3. When was the land for Emancipation Park in Houston purchased?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1892.

4. When did Jefferson publish a history of the Confederacy claiming that slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1883.

5. What countries had considered supported the Confederacy before the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) Austria and Germany.
(b) Germany and Italy.
(c) Britain and Spain.
(d) Britain and France.

6. What was the average age for a Civil War soldier according to a man named Jason at the SCV celebration?
(a) 19 to 25.
(b) 20 to 30.
(c) 18 to 24.
(d) 17 to 22.

7. How many Black soldiers were killed after surrendering either during or after the Battle of the Crater?
(a) 180.
(b) About 150.
(c) Roughly 200.
(d) 75.

8. At the time Smith wrote How the Word Is Passed, how long had Sue Johnson been organizing the Juneteenth event?
(a) About 30 years.
(b) Not quite 20 years.
(c) 33 years.
(d) 25 years.

9. When did the myth of Black Confederate soldiers emerge?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1940s.
(d) 1950s.

10. How many times did an honor guard at the Sons of Confederate Veterans celebration at Blandford shoot their rifles?
(a) 4 times.
(b) 3 times.
(c) 1 time.
(d) 2 times.

11. When was Mr. Richard Poplar, a Black gentleman, said to have joined the Susex Dragoons?
(a) April 1861.
(b) February 1861.
(c) March 1861.
(d) May 1861.

12. When was the Historical African American Cemeteries and Graves Act passed by the Virginia legislature?
(a) 2017.
(b) 2018.
(c) 2015.
(d) 2016.

13. When did Laura Martin Rose, historian and president of the UDC's Mississippi chapter, publish The Ku Klux Klan; or, Invisible Empire?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1911.

14. When Smith was in New York City, what station did he leave from to reach the South Ferry stop?
(a) Byside Station.
(b) Grand Central Station.
(c) Parkside Station.
(d) Penn Station.

15. Before Lincoln was inaugurated, how many states seceded from the Union?
(a) 7.
(b) 4.
(c) 8.
(d) 9.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Al Edwards Sr. when Smith was able to speak to him at a Juneteenth celebration in Galveston?

2. When did a new museum open on Liberty Island where the Statue of Liberty is located?

3. How many Union soldiers died at the prison established at Charleston's Washington Race Course and Jackey Club?

4. Of the soldiers buried at Blandford, about how many were identified?

5. When did a Black community once exist in what has become Central Park?

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