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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21: "With the Union Army".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Harriet working in June of 1857, according to the author in Chapter 19: “The Old Folks Go North”?
(a) Charleston, Virginia.
(b) Cape May, New Jersey.
(c) Bucktown, Maryland.
(d) Troy, New York.

2. Who was to oversee the plantation after Edward Brodas died?
(a) Dr. Anthony Thompson.
(b) Franklin B. Sanborn.
(c) William Craft.
(d) Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

3. Harriet told the fugitives about William and Ellen Craft escaping from where in Chapter 15: “Go On or Die”?
(a) Macon, Georgia.
(b) Huntsville, Alabama.
(c) Columbia, South Carolina.
(d) Jackson, Mississippi.

4. What year was it that Harriet started wearing a bandana, according to the author in Chapter 6: “The Underground Road”?
(a) 1824.
(b) 1831.
(c) 1829.
(d) 1838.

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?
(a) “Telling stories.”
(b) “Absolute honesty.”
(c) “Womanizing.”
(d) “Stealing things.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Harriet describe drugging the twin babies with when she led a group of fugitives North in her lecture in Chapter 20: “The Lecture Platform”?

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

3. To whom did Thomas Garrett send a letter in Philadelphia to let him know that Harriet and the fugitives were on their way in Chapter 17: “Moses Arrives with Six Passengers”?

4. Where did Denmark Vesey and his followers plan to kill all of the white people, according to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years”?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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