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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For the first how many years that Monticello was a museum, how were most of the guides Black men dresses as slaves?
(a) 35 years.
(b) 25 years.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 20 years.

3. How long did Historian Lucia Stanton work as a historian at Monticello?
(a) 15 years.
(b) Over 3 decades.
(c) Two decades.
(d) 35 years.

4. What was the name of Sally Hemings child who was freed in Jefferson's will?
(a) Beverly.
(b) Madison.
(c) Eston.
(d) Harriet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Smith make the visits to the places he describes in How the Word is Passed?

2. Before the civil war, how many slave cabins were on the Whitney Plantation?

3. How large is the arena for the Angola Prison Rodeo?

4. What was the average sentence at Angola?

5. When did Jefferson sign an act prohibiting the importation of slaves to the U.S.?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Patsy Dreher write in a book about living at Angola?

2. How did Jefferson feel about separating families, and did he separate families?

3. What labor did slaves have to contribute to the building of Jefferson's house?

4. What exhibit commemorated the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history at The Whitney Plantation?

5. How is Monticello situated on the land?

6. Where does most of the information about Sally Hemings and Jefferson's relationship come from?

7. How did Yvonne Holden, a guide at Whitney Plantation, believed that slavery needed to be depicted?

8. What was David Thorson's background--the guide who gave Smith a tour of Monticello?

9. How did David Thorson describe slavery?

10. Who was Sally Hemings?

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