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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. When did Ulrich Bonnell Phillips write that slavery was a benevolent system designed to civilize "an inferior African race" (71)?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1920.

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

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

4. From where were the jail cells that sit at the center of Whitney Plantation grounds from originally?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Virginia.

5. How much was Norris Henderson paid for working in the field when he was at Angola?
(a) 6 cents an hour.
(b) 5 cents an hour.
(c) 7 cents an hour.
(d) 8 cents an hour.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did it take to build Jefferson's house at Monticello?

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

3. 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?

4. In "Monticello Plantation," where was Smith living?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why did some some people believe that certain exhibits at Whitney Plantation undermined the historical integrity of the place?

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

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

9. Who was Sally Hemings?

10. How did John Cummings establish the Whitney Plantation?

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