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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1810.
(c) 1813.
(d) 1811.

3. What artist designed the statues in the church at Whitney Plantation?
(a) Charles Alston.
(b) Kehinde Wiley.
(c) Sam Gilliam.
(d) Woodrow Nash.

4. How many people were killed in a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, as they prayed?
(a) 11.
(b) 8.
(c) 9.
(d) 10.

5. How much money did John Cummings invest in Whitney Planation to make it into a museum?
(a) $12 million.
(b) $15 million.
(c) $10 million.
(d) $7 million.

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

7. How much was Norris Henderson paid for working in the field when he was at Angola?
(a) 6 cents an hour.
(b) 8 cents an hour.
(c) 7 cents an hour.
(d) 5 cents an hour.

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

9. When was Monticello first opened to the public?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1897.

10. When did James Hubbard, an enslaved man who worked in Monticello's nail factory run away?
(a) 1809.
(b) Around 1810.
(c) 1808.
(d) During 1811.

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

12. In 1860, how many of the nearly four million enslaved people were under the age of 20?
(a) 53 percent.
(b) 60 percent.
(c) 62 percent.
(d) 57 percent.

13. When did the children honored at the Field of Angels die in Saint John the Baptist Parish?
(a) 1800 to 1844.
(b) 1830 to 1855.
(c) 1810 to 1850.
(d) 1823 through 1863.

14. How many languages does Dr. Ibrahima Seck speak?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

15. What percent of those at Angola did Norris believe were convicted by split juries?
(a) 25 percent.
(b) 50 percent.
(c) 45 percent.
(d) 35 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 2013 law suit when three men on death row sued Angola for "appalling and extreme conditions" (111), what was the heat index on death row at times?

2. How many Black administrators had Angola had by the time Smith visited Angola Prison?

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

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

5. How many people were known to have been enslaved at Whitney Plantation?

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