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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. 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?
(a) 195 degrees Fahrenheit.
(b) 180 degrees Fahrenheit.
(c) 175 degrees Fahrenheit.
(d) 185 degrees Fahrenheit.

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

3. How old was Yvonne Holden's grandfather when he and his brother tried to leave Arkansas for Illinois?
(a) 16.
(b) 9.
(c) 14.
(d) 12.

4. What highway did Smith take to Angola Prison?
(a) I-10.
(b) I-12.
(c) I-49.
(d) I-59.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Ulrich Bonnell Phillips write that slavery was a benevolent system designed to civilize "an inferior African race" (71)?

2. How many of Jefferson's descendants are buried in the Jefferson Cemetery?

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

4. How many languages does Dr. Ibrahima Seck speak?

5. When was Monticello first opened to the public?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did medical schools use the bodies of the enslaved?

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

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

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

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

7. How did David Thorson describe slavery?

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

9. 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?

10. How did John Cummings establish the Whitney Plantation?

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