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

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

4. When was Monticello first opened to the public?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1908.

5. How many of Jefferson's descendants are buried in the Jefferson Cemetery?
(a) 280.
(b) About 250.
(c) 240.
(d) Roughly 200.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many generations were some of the slaves at Monticello enslaved there?

2. When Smith visited Monticello, how many of the 89 tour guides were Black?

3. In the 2013 law suit when three men on death row sued Angola for "appalling and extreme conditions" (111), what was the heat index on death row at times?

4. When did James Hubbard, an enslaved man who worked in Monticello's nail factory run away?

5. From where were the jail cells that sit at the center of Whitney Plantation grounds from originally?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the replica of a slave cabin like at Monticello?

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

3. How was Niya Bates, then Monticello's director of African American history and of the Getting Word oral history project, trying to find descendants of the enslaved community at Monticello?

4. How did David Thorson describe slavery?

5. Why did some some people believe that certain exhibits at Whitney Plantation undermined the historical integrity of the place?

6. Who was Sally Hemings?

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 role did New Orleans have in the slave trade?

10. How did John Cummings establish the Whitney Plantation?

(see the answer keys)

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