1. According to Loewen, there are more monuments to this person in Tennessee than to any other person in any state in the US. Who is this provocative figure? Davy Crockett Dolly Parton Elvis Presley Nathan Bedford Forrest

2. Almo, Idaho boasts an impressive stone monument "dedicated to the memory of those who lost their lives in a horrible Indian massacre, 1861. Three hundred immigrants west bound [sic]. Only five escaped." What part of the story does this monument leave out? The "three hundred immigrants" were actually United States cavalry sent to exterminate the Indians The entire story is almost certainly false, since there is no reliable evidence that a massacre of this nature ever occurred anywhere near Almo The "three hundred immigrants" were actually bandits who were executed for looting an Indian village Nothing - the marker is essentially accurate

3. Another interesting monument marks the site of the Mountain Meadows Massacre near St. George, Utah. Its text tells how "in the valley below, between September 7 and 11, 1857, a company of more than 120 Arkansas emigrants led by Capt. John T. Baker and Capt. Alexander Fancher was attacked while en route to California." What pertinent facts are omitted on this monument? The identity of the attackers; the emigrants were killed by Latter-Day Saints (Mormons). The "emigrants" were actually United States cavalry sent to exterminate the Indians The entire story is almost certainly false, since there is no reliable evidence that a massacre of this nature ever occurred anywhere near St. George The "emigrants" were actually bandits who were executed for looting an Indian village

4. In 1991, New Mexico commissioned a heroic sculpture of Juan de Oñate, the first Spanish conquistador to colonize the area. How did some local Pueblo Indians commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of Oñate's arrival in 1998? They bathed the statue in cattle blood to symbolize the herds that Onate had killed to starve the Acomas in 1598 They cut off his head and replaced it with a Native American model They held a ceremony honoring Onate, as he is widely viewed as a benevolent governor They cut off the sculpture's right foot to symbolize how Onate had maimed the surviving males of the Acoma village of Santo Domingo

5. The Red Cloud, Nebraska area is largely dedicated to a major American author, boasting nearly two hundred historic sites in her honor, most of which focus on her references to the area in her work. Most of these sites avoid much detail of the author's life, however, perhaps to avoid dealing with the wide perception that she was homosexual. Who is this Nebraska author? Emily Dickinson Dorothy Parker Virginia Woolf Willa Cather

6. In Centralia, Washington's town square there stands a statue of a World War I soldier. Though its position may lead the casual observer to conclude that it is a generic memorial to the city's honored war dead, the back side of the statue's base reads: "To the memory of Ben Casagranda, Warren O. Grimm, Earnest Dale Hubbard, Arthur McElfresh, slain on the streets of Centralia, Washington, Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1919, while on peaceful parade wearing the uniform of the country they loyally and faithfully served." What is the omitted story of this "peaceful parade"? It was an American Legion parade advancing on the recently rebuilt Industrial Workers of the World union hall, which the Legion had burned down the year before The soldiers were killed trying to enforce a new conscription law It was a thinly-disguised attempt to intimidate African-American voters The four men were killed in a riot between rival groups of Army and Navy veterans

7. One of the most prominent buildings at Mississippi Valley State University (MVSU) in Itta Bena, MS is Fielding Wright Hall, named for the Mississippi Governor at the time of the school's establishment. What is ironic about the naming of this building? Fielding Wright Hall is home to the campus' Jewish Studies program, and Wright was an avid denier of the Holocaust MVSU is a predominantly African-American university, and Wright ran for national office on a platform that opposed African-American civil rights MVSU was founded expressly to serve veterans of World War II, and Wright was a vigorous opponent of the war Wright had opposed the University's construction, citing the growing trend toward subversive liberalism in higher education

8. In Genesee County in upstate New York, a state-sponsored historical marker memorializes a river crossing on the Grand Central Trail "said to have been used by George Washington during the French and Indian War". What is misleading about this marker? The "George Washington" referred to was a local resident, not the future president It is trivial - who cares where Washington crossed a river in the French and Indian War? It is almost certainly local boosterism fabricated to draw tourists Nothing is wrong with it. Its removal was attempted in the 1960s by African-Americans who did not want to memorialize a slaveowner, but nothing came of the effort

9. In front of Dearborn, Michigan's city hall stands a statue of longtime mayor Orville Hubbard. The marker nearby praises Hubbard paying attention to public opinion and making Dearborn known for "punctual trash collection [and] speedy snow removal". For what other defining characteristic of Hubbard's administration was Dearborn well-known? Anti-union legislation Exclusion of African-Americans Hubbard's theft of several million dollars Turning a blind eye to prostitution

10. The well-known statue of Hawaii's King Kamehameha that stands in the Capitol's Statuary Hall in Washington, DC is a careful composite based on several extant portraits of the monarch drawn during his lifetime. True False