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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Compared to the entrance hall to Jefferson's mansion, what size was the replica slave quarters at Monticello?
2. In the 2013 law suit when three men on death row sued Angola for "appalling and extreme conditions" (111), what was the heat index on death row at times?
3. How many of Jefferson's descendants are buried in the Jefferson Cemetery?
4. How old was Jefferson's wife, Martha, when she died?
5. At Monticello, how far up a path did Smith have to walk to Jefferson's grave?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was David Thorson's background--the guide who gave Smith a tour of Monticello?
2. 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?
3. What exhibit commemorated the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history at The Whitney Plantation?
4. What was known about Jefferson's relationship to slavery?
5. What was convict leasing and how did non-unanimous jury decisions contribute to the system of convict leasing?
6. How did Yvonne Holden, a guide at Whitney Plantation, believed that slavery needed to be depicted?
7. What did Patsy Dreher write in a book about living at Angola?
8. How did Jefferson feel about separating families, and did he separate families?
9. What is the replica of a slave cabin like at Monticello?
10. How did David Thorson describe slavery?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Many individuals in the South want Confederate monuments to remain. Many Blacks want them removed. Why is there a difference of opinion about removing the monuments?
Essay Topic 2
Angola Prison was once a slave plantation. How and why did Smith feel that conversations were silenced about how the past activities on the land shaped its present?
Essay Topic 3
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. Why did the Emancipation Proclamation not help the formerly enslaved to make the transformation to freedom?
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