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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13: "The Legend of Moses".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the United States Commissioner who presided at Thomas Sims’s hearing?
(a) John Campbell Henry.
(b) Peter Jackson.
(c) George Ticknor Curtis.
(d) Thomas Sims.

2. Ben said to Old Rit in Chapter 5: “Flight” that the Master had begun selling his big timber to whom?
(a) The army.
(b) Carpenters in the city.
(c) The shipbuilders.
(d) The telegraph company.

3. What two African Americans began to publish Freedom’s Journal, according to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) Thomas Sims and John Bowley.
(b) John Russwurm and Reverend Samuel Cornish.
(c) John Stewart and Nat Turner.
(d) Frederick Douglass and William Henry Ross.

4. How old was Thomas Jefferson when he died?
(a) 59.
(b) 64.
(c) 83.
(d) 76.

5. Shadrach was arrested in Boston on what date and charged with being a fugitive slave?
(a) July 17, 1849.
(b) May 5, 1854.
(c) January 22, 1857.
(d) February 15, 1851.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day did two of Harriet’s sisters leave with the chain-gang in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Flight,” the chain gang walked down a “long, terrible road that ended” where?

3. How much wood did Harriet usually cut per day as a part of her father’s team in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet”?

4. How old was Harriet when her father told her “Hat, you walk like a Injun” in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet”?

5. What word in the text refers to the movement to end slavery?

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