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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: "The Underground Road".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Harriet sleep in the Cooks’ house in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?
(a) In the basement.
(b) In the attic.
(c) In her own bedroom.
(d) In the kitchen.

2. What were the names of the two men who helped Denmark Vesey in the resurrection by building homemade pikes?
(a) Charles Nalle and John A. Andrew.
(b) Peter Poyas and Mingo Harth.
(c) John Chase and William Bailey.
(d) Henry K. Durrant and George Ticknor Curtis.

3. What is described in Chapter 3: “Six Years Old” as “the star that stayed constant, not rising in the east and setting in the west as other stars appeared to do”?
(a) The North Star.
(b) Rigel.
(c) Betelgeuse.
(d) The Southern Cross.

4. What was the Canadian government’s reply when Henry Clay made his second plea to make an agreement to return American slaves, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) “We can return the slaves for no less than one million dollars each.”
(b) “All parties have already been given full Canadian citizenship.”
(c) “The people of Canada are repulsed by the practice of slavery.”
(d) “It is utterly impossible to agree to a stipulation for the surrender of fugitive slaves.”

5. How many rooms comprised the cabins in the slave quarters where Harriet Tubman was born?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what county was Harriet Tubman born?

2. Who was Harriet Greene’s husband?

3. What was the chief crop on the Eastern shore at the time when Harriet was hired out in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?

4. Miss Susan returned Harriet to the Brodas plantation, saying that she wasn’t worth what in Chapter 6: “The Underground Road”?

5. What two African Americans began to publish Freedom’s Journal, according to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Flight”?

(see the answer key)

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