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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many lives of enslaved children are honored at the Field of Angels?
(a) 1,800.
(b) 2,700.
(c) 2,200.
(d) 1,100.

2. When did Smith make the visits to the places he describes in How the Word is Passed?
(a) Between July 2017 and March 2020.
(b) Between November 2017 and April 2020.
(c) Between October 2017 and February 2020.
(d) Between May 2017 and January 2020.

3. At Monticello, how far up a path did Smith have to walk to Jefferson's grave?
(a) About a third of a mile.
(b) About two-thirds of a mile.
(c) About a quarter mile.
(d) About half a mile.

4. When did the State of Louisiana take over running Angola?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1901.

5. When did Louisiana begin using the electric chair?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1937.

6. How old was Jefferson's wife, Martha, when she died?
(a) 33.
(b) 29.
(c) 54.
(d) 41.

7. When was the oral history project begun to interview descendants of the enslaved community at Monticello?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1991.

8. When Smith visited Angola Prison, what percent of people serving life sentences were Black?
(a) 71%.
(b) 83%.
(c) 69%.
(d) 62%.

9. What was the name of Sally Hemings child who was freed in Jefferson's will?
(a) Harriet.
(b) Beverly.
(c) Eston.
(d) Madison.

10. What Black poet did Jefferson denigrate?
(a) John Jea.
(b) Phillis Wheatley.
(c) Jupiter Hammon.
(d) Lucy Terry.

11. How deep did slaves have to dig for water before water was found at Monticello?
(a) 20 feet.
(b) 30 feet.
(c) 65 feet.
(d) 70 feet.

12. How many sculpted heads on stakes were on exhibit at the Whitney Plantation?
(a) 40.
(b) 45.
(c) 60.
(d) 55.

13. When did John Cummings learn about Whitney Plantation and consider buying it?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1998.
(c) 1997.
(d) 1991.

14. Before the civil war, how many slave cabins were on the Whitney Plantation?
(a) 28.
(b) 22.
(c) 36.
(d) 39.

15. Where did David Thorson's children go to college?
(a) Williams & Mary.
(b) University of Virginia.
(c) James Madison University.
(d) Virginia Commonwealth University.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where were the jail cells that sit at the center of Whitney Plantation grounds from originally?

2. In 1860, how many of the nearly four million enslaved people were under the age of 20?

3. When was the first person put to death by lethal injection in Lousiaian?

4. How many plantations did Jefferson have?

5. When did a DNA test indicate that the father of Sally Heming's youngest child was fathered by Jefferson?

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