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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Blandford Cemetery.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did members of Petersburg's free Black community purchase the People's Memorial Cemetery?
(a) 1871.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1845.

2. How many Black soldiers were killed after surrendering either during or after the Battle of the Crater?
(a) Roughly 200.
(b) About 150.
(c) 180.
(d) 75.

3. When was the land that became the Whitney Plantation purchased?
(a) 1752.
(b) 1761.
(c) 1774.
(d) 1749.

4. Before Lincoln was inaugurated, how many states seceded from the Union?
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 9.

5. To what Native Americans did the land Monticello sits on belong?
(a) Choctaw.
(b) Munsee Lanape.
(c) Monacan.
(d) Nottoway.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the first how many years that Monticello was a museum, how were most of the guides Black men dresses as slaves?

2. How deep did slaves have to dig for water before water was found at Monticello?

3. How old was Leon A. Waters in the Prologue?

4. What was the average sentence at Angola?

5. How many plantations did Jefferson have?

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