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

2. To what Native Americans did the land Monticello sits on belong?
(a) Monacan.
(b) Munsee Lanape.
(c) Choctaw.
(d) Nottoway.

3. How many American plantations besides Monticello are on the UNESCO World Heritage List?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) None.
(d) 1.

4. When did Louisiana begin using the electric chair?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1939.

5. What Black poet did Jefferson denigrate?
(a) Jupiter Hammon.
(b) John Jea.
(c) Phillis Wheatley.
(d) Lucy Terry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much was Norris Henderson paid for working in the field when he was at Angola?

2. When was the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history?

3. What artist designed the statues in the church at Whitney Plantation?

4. What was the average sentence at Angola?

5. When Smith interviewed Niya Bates, how long did she say they had been giving esentially the same main tour?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. How did David Thorson describe slavery?

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

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

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

10. Who was Sally Hemings?

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