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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 1860, how many of the nearly four million enslaved people were under the age of 20?
(a) 60 percent.
(b) 57 percent.
(c) 62 percent.
(d) 53 percent.

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

3. How many lives of enslaved children are honored at the Field of Angels?
(a) 1,800.
(b) 1,100.
(c) 2,200.
(d) 2,700.

4. How many of Sally Hemings children survived into adulthood?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

5. Where did David Thorson's children go to college?
(a) Virginia Commonwealth University.
(b) Williams & Mary.
(c) University of Virginia.
(d) James Madison University.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did John Cummings learn about Whitney Plantation and consider buying it?

4. What highway did Smith take to Angola Prison?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did David Thorson describe slavery?

2. How is Monticello situated on the land?

3. Why did Smith say that the Haitian Revolution was an impetus to the Louisiana Purchase?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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