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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. 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?

2. From where were the jail cells that sit at the center of Whitney Plantation grounds from originally?

3. For the first how many years that Monticello was a museum, how were most of the guides Black men dresses as slaves?

4. What was the average sentence at Angola?

5. What Black poet did Jefferson denigrate?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Monticello situated on the land?

2. How did Yvonne Holden, a guide at Whitney Plantation, believed that slavery needed to be depicted?

3. What role did New Orleans have in the slave trade?

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

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

6. 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?

7. How did John Cummings establish the Whitney Plantation?

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. Why did Smith say that the Haitian Revolution was an impetus to the Louisiana Purchase?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A tour guide at Monticello commented that "history is the story of the past using all the available facts” (41). How did the presentation of the history of Jefferson’s life change at Monticello? What facts were presented that were not presented earlier? What facts became available over time that were not available earlier? How did nostalgia and memory influence the story that was told about Jefferson previously?

Essay Topic 2

Jefferson was a slave owner. In what way was Jefferson conflicted regarding slavery? Why, if he found slavery to be repugnant, did he keep slaves? In what way did he have an ambivalent attitude toward slavery?

Essay Topic 3

What a reader knows about events and individuals is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view of How the Word Is Passed? How does that point of view influence what readers understand and feel about the information presented?

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