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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18: "A Wagon Load of Bricks".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Reverend Theodore Parker was elected chairman of what committee in Chapter 12: “Freedom’s Clothes”?
(a) The Committee of the Emancipation Proclamation.
(b) The Free Men’s Liberation Committee.
(c) The Executive Committee of the Boston Vigilance Committee.
(d) The Committee for Universal Equality.

2. In what year did Henry Clay make a second plea to the government of Canada, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) 1827.
(b) 1844.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1853.

3. How many trips does the author say Harriet Tubman made into Maryland between 1851 and 1857 to bring out slaves in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks”?
(a) 4.
(b) 18.
(c) 26.
(d) 11.

4. Who published the first issue of The Liberator?
(a) George Ticknor Curtis.
(b) William Lloyd Garrison.
(c) Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
(d) William Henry Ross.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The slave that ran away while the others were shucking corn in Chapter 7: “Shuck this Corn” belonged to whom?

2. Where did Harriet Tubman find work as a cook in Philadelphia in Chapter 11: “Stranger in a Strange Land”?

3. The narrator says in Chapter 2: “The First Years” that “Like all the other babies in the quarter, Harriet Ross cut her first teeth on” what?

4. Who was John Chase’s master, according to the records in Chapter 17: “Moses Arrives with Six Passengers”?

5. In describing Benjamin Ross, the narrator says in Chapter 3: “Six Years Old,” “All through the plantation, from the Big House to the stables, to the fields, he had a reputation for” what?

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