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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 complete abolition come to New York?

2. When did Jefferson publish a history of the Confederacy claiming that slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War?

3. In 2018, how much tax money was directed toward maintaining Confederate monuments?

4. How many sets of Confederate remains did the Petersburg Ladies' Memorial Association find?

5. According to Joseph T. Glatthaar, historian, in 1861, how many Confederate soldiers either owned slaves or lived with a head of household who did?

Short Essay Questions

1. What myth tells a story about General Gordon Granger?

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

3. Why was the Petersburg Ladies' Memorial Association established, and how successful were they in their mission?

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

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

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

7. What did Damaras Obi, a tour guide in New York City, say about how slavery was central to the U.S. economy?

8. What education project was the UDC involved in?

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

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

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

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

What a reader knows about events and individuals is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view of How the Word Is Passed? How does that point of view influence what readers understand and feel about the information presented?

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