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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. What percent of those at Angola did Norris believe were convicted by split juries?
(a) 25 percent.
(b) 45 percent.
(c) 35 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

2. How many of Sally Hemings children did Jefferson father?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

3. How many people were known to have been enslaved at Whitney Plantation?
(a) 354.
(b) 391.
(c) 289.
(d) 407.

4. How old was Jefferson's wife, Martha, when she died?
(a) 29.
(b) 41.
(c) 54.
(d) 33.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the average sentence at Angola?

2. When was the book The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South published?

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

4. How deep did slaves have to dig for water before water was found at Monticello?

5. When did a DNA test indicate that the father of Sally Heming's youngest child was fathered by Jefferson?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did John Cummings establish the Whitney Plantation?

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

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

4. How did David Thorson describe slavery?

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

6. What information did Smith notice that their tour guide at Angola failed to mention?

7. 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?

8. How did Yvonne Holden, a guide at Whitney Plantation, believed that slavery needed to be depicted?

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

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

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