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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 the State of Louisiana take over running Angola?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1899.
2. When Smith visited Angola Prison, what percent of people serving life sentences were Black?
(a) 83%.
(b) 69%.
(c) 62%.
(d) 71%.
3. What percent of those at Angola did Norris believe were convicted by split juries?
(a) 25 percent.
(b) 50 percent.
(c) 45 percent.
(d) 35 percent.
4. How long did it take to build Jefferson's house at Monticello?
(a) More than 40 years.
(b) 42 years.
(c) About 30 years.
(d) 36 years.
5. When did Angola Prison's infamous maximum-security housing unit, Red Hat cell block, close?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1972.
Short Answer Questions
1. Before the civil war, how many slave cabins were on the Whitney Plantation?
2. For the first how many years that Monticello was a museum, how were most of the guides Black men dresses as slaves?
3. For how many generations were some of the slaves at Monticello enslaved there?
4. From where were the jail cells that sit at the center of Whitney Plantation grounds from originally?
5. How long did Historian Lucia Stanton work as a historian at Monticello?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was known about Jefferson's relationship to slavery?
2. How did David Thorson compare history, nostalgia, and memory?
3. What information did Smith notice that their tour guide at Angola failed to mention?
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 exhibit commemorated the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history at The Whitney Plantation?
6. What was David Thorson's background--the guide who gave Smith a tour of Monticello?
7. How is Monticello situated on the land?
8. What is the replica of a slave cabin like at Monticello?
9. What labor did slaves have to contribute to the building of Jefferson's house?
10. Where does most of the information about Sally Hemings and Jefferson's relationship come from?
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