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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Richmond, what size is the Robert E. Lee statue?
(a) 18 feet tall.
(b) 12 feet tall.
(c) 21 feet tall.
(d) 27 feet tall.

2. According to historian Donald L. Fixico, how many Indigenous American lived in North American in 1492?
(a) A few million to 15 million.
(b) 25 million.
(c) 8 million.
(d) 10 to 20 million.

3. What was Jefferson Davis's home state?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Louisiana.

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

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

6. How many years did it take Nora Davidson's Ladies' Memorial Association to exhume bodies of Confederate soldiers and bury them?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 12 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 15 years.

7. When did a Black community once exist in what has become Central Park?
(a) 1825 to 1857.
(b) 1835 to 1861.
(c) 1830 to 1854.
(d) 1820 to 1849.

8. When did Sam Houston, the first president of the Republic of Texas, refuse to swear an oath to the Confederacy?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1860.

9. Where was John J. Crittenden from who introduced what became known as the Crittenden Compromise?
(a) Indiana.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Illinois.

10. When did former Confederate general Bradley T. Johnson explain that slavery was an apprenticeship for savage races?
(a) May 18, 1896.
(b) April 11, 1896.
(c) March 9, 1896.
(d) February 22, 1896.

11. Where were the Sons of Confederates founded in Richmond?
(a) 1871.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1896.
(d) 1892.

12. When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, how much of the total wealthy in the U.S. was owned by Black Americans?
(a) 0.5 percent.
(b) 0.2 percent.
(c) 0.7 percent.
(d) 0.4 percent.

13. According to a woman named Temple Cummins, how long did her master intend to delay telling the slaves they were free?
(a) 18 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) After harvest.
(d) After he made another crop or two.

14. In 1850, how many Black people owned property in New York City?
(a) 62.
(b) 71.
(c) 48.
(d) 57.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the city of Houston when Jack Yates and his family moved there?

2. In 2018, how much tax money was directed toward maintaining Confederate monuments?

3. How many stained glass windows did Louis Comfort Tiffany create for Blandford Church?

4. When did Jefferson publish a history of the Confederacy claiming that slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War?

5. How long after Robert E. Lee surrendered did General Granger and his forces arrive in Galveston?

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