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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) 1,700.
(b) 2,800.
(c) 1,900.
(d) 2,300.

2. When did Jefferson sign an act prohibiting the importation of slaves to the U.S.?
(a) 1808.
(b) 1805.
(c) 1806.
(d) 1807.

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

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

5. Compared to the entrance hall to Jefferson's mansion, what size was the replica slave quarters at Monticello?
(a) 1/4 the size.
(b) 1/2 the size.
(c) 2/3 the size.
(d) 1/3 the size.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Smith born and raised?

2. 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?

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

4. On the German Coast of Louisiana in the early 19th century, what percent of the total population was enslaved?

5. How many Black administrators had Angola had by the time Smith visited Angola Prison?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did David Thorson describe slavery?

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

3. What role did New Orleans have in the slave trade?

4. How is Monticello situated on the land?

5. What was convict leasing and how did non-unanimous jury decisions contribute to the system of convict leasing?

6. What was Ulrich Bonnell Phillips theory about chattel slavery and when was the first book written to change this idea?

7. How did David Thorson compare history, nostalgia, and memory?

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

9. What was known about Jefferson's relationship to slavery?

10. Who was the first person put to death in Louisiana by lethal injection?

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