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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many plantations did Jefferson have?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

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

3. When was the Historical African American Cemeteries and Graves Act passed by the Virginia legislature?
(a) 2017.
(b) 2018.
(c) 2016.
(d) 2015.

4. When did a DNA test indicate that the father of Sally Heming's youngest child was fathered by Jefferson?
(a) 1995.
(b) 2008.
(c) 1998.
(d) 2001.

5. When did the State of Louisiana transition from the electric chair to lethal injection?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1991.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the date of the oldest marked grave at Blandford Cemetery?

2. At Monticello, how far up a path did Smith have to walk to Jefferson's grave?

3. When did Ulrich Bonnell Phillips write that slavery was a benevolent system designed to civilize "an inferior African race" (71)?

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

5. How many of Sally Hemings children did Jefferson father?

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