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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. When did a Black community once exist in what has become Central Park?

2. When Lincoln ran for the presidency in 1860, in how many states did slavery exist?

3. What countries had considered supported the Confederacy before the Emancipation Proclamation?

4. How many Black soldiers fought on behalf of the Union?

5. In 1850, how many Black people owned property in New York City?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Lost Cause movement?

2. What did Smith write about the stories told about history at the end of the chapter about Blandford Cemetery?

3. What was the Blandford Church?

4. What considerations did Smith feel needed to be made when studying history or celebrating significant moments of the past?

5. Why did Al Edwards Sr. work to make Juneteenth a Texas state holiday?

6. What did Robert E. Lee write in a letter in 1869 about monuments?

7. What did Lee write to his wife in 1856 about slavery?

8. What did Martha at Blandford Cemetery think Robert E. Lee would have felt about all the statues in his honor?

9. What happened to a woman named Tempie Cummins and her mother after freedom was declared?

10. What advice did tour guide Damaras Obi, leave Smith and the other tour participants with?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

An analogy is the comparison of an unfamiliar object or idea to a familiar one in an attempt to explain the unfamiliar or to help readers understand characters, events, or concepts. What are some analogies Smith uses in How the Word Is Passed? How do these analogies help readers comprehend individuals, events or concepts?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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