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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. 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?
(a) 50 to 60.
(b) 90 to 100.
(c) 40 to 50.
(d) 70 to 80.

2. Between 1774 and 1778 how many births and deaths were among Jefferson's enslaved population?
(a) 22 births and 12 deaths.
(b) 25 births and 18 deaths.
(c) 28 births and 15 deaths.
(d) 15 births and 8 deaths.

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

4. When was Norris Henderson released from Angola?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2007.
(d) 2005.

5. When did the children honored at the Field of Angels die in Saint John the Baptist Parish?
(a) 1800 to 1844.
(b) 1830 to 1855.
(c) 1810 to 1850.
(d) 1823 through 1863.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Whitney Plantation located?

2. How long was Norris Henderson imprisoned in Angola?

3. How many American plantations besides Monticello are on the UNESCO World Heritage List?

4. How old was Leon A. Waters in the Prologue?

5. How long did Historian Lucia Stanton work as a historian at Monticello?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did David Thorson describe slavery?

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

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

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

6. What was the Red Hat cell block at Angola?

7. Who was Sally Hemings?

8. 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?

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

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

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