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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. How many plantations did Jefferson have?
2. How much money did John Cummings invest in Whitney Planation to make it into a museum?
3. When did a DNA test indicate that the father of Sally Heming's youngest child was fathered by Jefferson?
4. How large is the arena for the Angola Prison Rodeo?
5. When was the oral history project begun to interview descendants of the enslaved community at Monticello?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What labor did slaves have to contribute to the building of Jefferson's house?
3. What information did Smith notice that their tour guide at Angola failed to mention?
4. Who was the first person put to death in Louisiana by lethal injection?
5. How did Yvonne Holden, a guide at Whitney Plantation, believed that slavery needed to be depicted?
6. What is the replica of a slave cabin like at Monticello?
7. Why did Smith say that the Haitian Revolution was an impetus to the Louisiana Purchase?
8. How did John Cummings establish the Whitney Plantation?
9. How did Jefferson feel about separating families, and did he separate families?
10. What did Patsy Dreher write in a book about living at Angola?
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
Clint Smith is the author of How the Word Is Passed. Why did Smith write the book?
Essay Topic 3
Smith discussed the lives of enslaved people. What did the lives they lived reveal about inhumane treatment?
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