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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. How old was Jefferson's wife, Martha, when she died?
(a) 54.
(b) 41.
(c) 29.
(d) 33.
2. When was the land that became the Whitney Plantation purchased?
(a) 1752.
(b) 1761.
(c) 1774.
(d) 1749.
3. When was the oral history project begun to interview descendants of the enslaved community at Monticello?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1994.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1992.
4. How many slaves did Jefferson sell over the course of his life?
(a) About 50.
(b) 75.
(c) More than 100.
(d) 125.
5. How deep did slaves have to dig for water before water was found at Monticello?
(a) 65 feet.
(b) 30 feet.
(c) 20 feet.
(d) 70 feet.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many people were killed in a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, as they prayed?
2. How large is the arena for the Angola Prison Rodeo?
3. How many people were known to have been enslaved at Whitney Plantation?
4. How many plantations did Jefferson have?
5. When did Jefferson sign an act prohibiting the importation of slaves to the U.S.?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the replica of a slave cabin like at Monticello?
2. How did John Cummings establish the Whitney Plantation?
3. What was the Red Hat cell block at Angola?
4. What role did New Orleans have in the slave trade?
5. What was Ulrich Bonnell Phillips theory about chattel slavery and when was the first book written to change this idea?
6. Why did some some people believe that certain exhibits at Whitney Plantation undermined the historical integrity of the place?
7. What was David Thorson's background--the guide who gave Smith a tour of Monticello?
8. Where does most of the information about Sally Hemings and Jefferson's relationship come from?
9. How did David Thorson compare history, nostalgia, and memory?
10. What was known about Jefferson's relationship to slavery?
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