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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 percent of those at Angola did Norris believe were convicted by split juries?
2. How many slaves did the Madison family have on Monticello Plantation?
3. When was Norris Henderson released from Angola?
4. To what Native Americans did the land Monticello sits on belong?
5. When did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that non-unanimous verdicts were unconstitutional for cases involving serious crimes?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does most of the information about Sally Hemings and Jefferson's relationship come from?
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. How did medical schools use the bodies of the enslaved?
4. What was the Red Hat cell block at Angola?
5. Who was Sally Hemings?
6. What labor did slaves have to contribute to the building of Jefferson's house?
7. Why did some some people believe that certain exhibits at Whitney Plantation undermined the historical integrity of the place?
8. What was David Thorson's background--the guide who gave Smith a tour of Monticello?
9. What did Patsy Dreher write in a book about living at Angola?
10. What information did Smith notice that their tour guide at Angola failed to mention?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
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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