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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 Monticello first opened to the public?
2. Where did David Thorson's children go to college?
3. How deep did slaves have to dig for water before water was found at Monticello?
4. How much money did John Cummings invest in Whitney Planation to make it into a museum?
5. Between 1774 and 1778 how many births and deaths were among Jefferson's enslaved population?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Jefferson feel about separating families, and did he separate families?
2. How did David Thorson describe slavery?
3. How did David Thorson compare history, nostalgia, and memory?
4. What did Patsy Dreher write in a book about living at Angola?
5. What labor did slaves have to contribute to the building of Jefferson's house?
6. What information did Smith notice that their tour guide at Angola failed to mention?
7. Who was Sally Hemings?
8. What was convict leasing and how did non-unanimous jury decisions contribute to the system of convict leasing?
9. How did medical schools use the bodies of the enslaved?
10. How did Yvonne Holden, a guide at Whitney Plantation, believed that slavery needed to be depicted?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Angola Prison was once a slave plantation. How and why did Smith feel that conversations were silenced about how the past activities on the land shaped its present?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
After the Civil War, there was a movement to recast the Civil War as a fight for "family, honor, and heritage" (140). Why was there a movement when the war ended to recast the Civil War as a fight for family, honor, and heritage, rather than to keep slavery as an institution?
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