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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 Black poet did Jefferson denigrate?
2. Where did David Thorson's children go to college?
3. How many slaves did the Madison family have on Monticello Plantation?
4. How much was Norris Henderson paid for working in the field when he was at Angola?
5. When was the book The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South published?
Short Essay Questions
1. What information did Smith notice that their tour guide at Angola failed to mention?
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. What is the replica of a slave cabin like at Monticello?
5. How did Jefferson feel about separating families, and did he separate families?
6. What was David Thorson's background--the guide who gave Smith a tour of Monticello?
7. What was known about Jefferson's relationship to slavery?
8. What exhibit commemorated the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history at The Whitney Plantation?
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. Who was the first person put to death in Louisiana by lethal injection?
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
Clint Smith is the author of How the Word Is Passed. Why did Smith write the book?
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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