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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. How old was Yvonne Holden's grandfather when he and his brother tried to leave Arkansas for Illinois?
2. When Smith interviewed Niya Bates, how long did she say they had been giving esentially the same main tour?
3. How many lives of enslaved children are honored at the Field of Angels?
4. When did Jefferson sign an act prohibiting the importation of slaves to the U.S.?
5. When did the State of Louisiana transition from the electric chair to lethal injection?
Short Essay Questions
1. What role did New Orleans have in the slave trade?
2. What did Patsy Dreher write in a book about living at Angola?
3. How did John Cummings establish the Whitney Plantation?
4. 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?
5. What labor did slaves have to contribute to the building of Jefferson's house?
6. How did Yvonne Holden, a guide at Whitney Plantation, believed that slavery needed to be depicted?
7. What was the Red Hat cell block at Angola?
8. How is Monticello situated on the land?
9. How did medical schools use the bodies of the enslaved?
10. What is the replica of a slave cabin like at Monticello?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Convict leasing was a system where prisoners, usually Blacks, convicted of crimes could be leased to companies and forced to work for railroads, plantations, and businesses. In what way was convict leasing a form of slavery?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Imagery is a literary device authors use to describe people in a narrative and the world they inhabit. Imagery involves using the five senses to describe individuals, places, and things. How does Smith use imagery to help readers imagine the places he visits in How The Word Is Passed?
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