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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. Where is Whitney Plantation located?

2. When was the oral history project begun to interview descendants of the enslaved community at Monticello?

3. When was Monticello first opened to the public?

4. When did Angola Prison's infamous maximum-security housing unit, Red Hat cell block, close?

5. How many slaves did the Madison family have on Monticello Plantation?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Sally Hemings?

3. How did medical schools use the bodies of the enslaved?

4. What labor did slaves have to contribute to the building of Jefferson's house?

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

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

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

8. What did Patsy Dreher write in a book about living at Angola?

9. 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?

10. Where does most of the information about Sally Hemings and Jefferson's relationship come from?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Convict leasing was a system where prisoners, usually Blacks, convicted of crimes could be leased to companies and forced to work for railroads, plantations, and businesses. In what way was convict leasing a form of slavery?

Essay Topic 3

Historic integrity determines the ability of a site to convey its significance. Why is there controversy regarding the historical integrity of the Whitney Plantation?

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