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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many of Sally Hemings children did Jefferson father?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.
2. From where were the jail cells that sit at the center of Whitney Plantation grounds from originally?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Virginia.
3. When did Angola Prison's infamous maximum-security housing unit, Red Hat cell block, close?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1971.
4. On the German Coast of Louisiana in the early 19th century, what percent of the total population was enslaved?
(a) About 70%.
(b) Roughly 60%.
(c) 45%.
(d) 55%.
5. When was the land that became the Whitney Plantation purchased?
(a) 1752.
(b) 1749.
(c) 1774.
(d) 1761.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did James Hubbard, an enslaved man who worked in Monticello's nail factory run away?
2. When was the transatlantic slave trade outlawed?
3. When Smith visited Angola Prison, what percent of people serving life sentences were Black?
4. When did the State of Louisiana transition from the electric chair to lethal injection?
5. What highway did Smith take to Angola Prison?
Short Essay Questions
1. What role did New Orleans have in the slave trade?
2. How did Yvonne Holden, a guide at Whitney Plantation, believed that slavery needed to be depicted?
3. What was the Red Hat cell block at Angola?
4. What labor did slaves have to contribute to the building of Jefferson's house?
5. How did David Thorson compare history, nostalgia, and memory?
6. How did Jefferson feel about separating families, and did he separate families?
7. What was known about Jefferson's relationship to slavery?
8. Why did some some people believe that certain exhibits at Whitney Plantation undermined the historical integrity of the place?
9. What was convict leasing and how did non-unanimous jury decisions contribute to the system of convict leasing?
10. What exhibit commemorated the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history at The Whitney Plantation?
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