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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. What artist designed the statues in the church at Whitney Plantation?

2. How long did Historian Lucia Stanton work as a historian at Monticello?

3. What highway did Smith take to Angola Prison?

4. How many firsthand accounts of formerly enslaved people were collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the late 1930s?

5. On the German Coast of Louisiana in the early 19th century, what percent of the total population was enslaved?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was known about Jefferson's relationship to slavery?

2. How did John Cummings establish the Whitney Plantation?

3. What exhibit commemorated the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history at The Whitney Plantation?

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

5. What was the Red Hat cell block at Angola?

6. Who was Sally Hemings?

7. How did Jefferson feel about separating families, and did he separate families?

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

9. What is the replica of a slave cabin like at Monticello?

10. How did David Thorson compare history, nostalgia, and memory?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Juneteenth is a holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. How did the Juneteenth celebration begi? Why is it significant to Smith and other Black Americans?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

When Robert E. Lee's men encountered the Black soldiers in battle, they had disdain for them. How did Confederate soldiers treat Black soldiers on and off the battlefield? Why were Black soldiers slaughtered by Confederate troops?

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