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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. For the first how many years that Monticello was a museum, how were most of the guides Black men dresses as slaves?
(a) 35 years.
(b) 30 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 20 years.

4. From where were the jail cells that sit at the center of Whitney Plantation grounds from originally?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Georgia.

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

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

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

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

9. How many people were known to have been enslaved at Whitney Plantation?
(a) 391.
(b) 407.
(c) 289.
(d) 354.

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

11. In "Monticello Plantation," where was Smith living?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Boston.

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

13. How many of Sally Hemings children survived into adulthood?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

14. Compared to the entrance hall to Jefferson's mansion, what size was the replica slave quarters at Monticello?
(a) 2/3 the size.
(b) 1/3 the size.
(c) 1/2 the size.
(d) 1/4 the size.

15. For how many generations were some of the slaves at Monticello enslaved there?
(a) 3 generations.
(b) 2 generations.
(c) 5 generations.
(d) 4 generations.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that non-unanimous verdicts were unconstitutional for cases involving serious crimes?

2. What highway did Smith take to Angola Prison?

3. How old was Niya Bates, the director of African American history at Monticello, when Smith visit4ed when the Sally Heminmgs DNA results were released?

4. How long was Norris Henderson imprisoned in Angola?

5. On the German Coast of Louisiana in the early 19th century, what percent of the total population was enslaved?

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