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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When was the oral history project begun to interview descendants of the enslaved community at Monticello?
2. How many American plantations besides Monticello are on the UNESCO World Heritage List?
3. How much money did John Cummings invest in Whitney Planation to make it into a museum?
4. How many Black administrators had Angola had by the time Smith visited Angola Prison?
5. What artist designed the statues in the church at Whitney Plantation?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did John Cummings establish the Whitney Plantation?
2. What labor did slaves have to contribute to the building of Jefferson's house?
3. How was Niya Bates, then Monticello's director of African American history and of the Getting Word oral history project, trying to find descendants of the enslaved community at Monticello?
4. What was Ulrich Bonnell Phillips theory about chattel slavery and when was the first book written to change this idea?
5. How did Yvonne Holden, a guide at Whitney Plantation, believed that slavery needed to be depicted?
6. Why did some some people believe that certain exhibits at Whitney Plantation undermined the historical integrity of the place?
7. How did medical schools use the bodies of the enslaved?
8. What exhibit commemorated the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history at The Whitney Plantation?
9. Why did Smith say that the Haitian Revolution was an impetus to the Louisiana Purchase?
10. How did David Thorson describe slavery?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
An analogy is the comparison of an unfamiliar object or idea to a familiar one in an attempt to explain the unfamiliar or to help readers understand characters, events, or concepts. What are some analogies Smith uses in How the Word Is Passed? How do these analogies help readers comprehend individuals, events or concepts?
Essay Topic 2
The song"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is known as the Black National Anthem. How and why did this song become known as the Black National Anthem?
Essay Topic 3
A tour guide at Monticello commented that "history is the story of the past using all the available facts” (41). How did the presentation of the history of Jefferson’s life change at Monticello? What facts were presented that were not presented earlier? What facts became available over time that were not available earlier? How did nostalgia and memory influence the story that was told about Jefferson previously?
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