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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mr. Cook have his traps set for in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?
(a) Muskrats.
(b) Fishers.
(c) Otters.
(d) Beavers.

2. The office of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee was located upstairs in what building?
(a) The Governor’s Mansion.
(b) The Lebanon Seminary.
(c) Faneuil Hall.
(d) The Thompson Theatre.

3. What year was it when Harriet Ross began to make a patchwork quilt in Chapter 9: “The Patchwork Quilt”?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1835.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1832.

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

5. Miss Susan returned Harriet to the Brodas plantation, saying that she wasn’t worth what in Chapter 6: “The Underground Road”?
(a) A shilling.
(b) A half-shilling
(c) Sixpence.
(d) A pound sterling.

6. Tice Davids planned to cross what river in Ripley, according to the author in Chapter 6: “The Underground Road”?
(a) The Mississippi River.
(b) The Colorado River.
(c) The Arkansas River.
(d) The Ohio River.

7. On what date did Thomas Jefferson die, according to the author’s notes in Chapter 3: “Six Years Old”?
(a) July 4, 1826.
(b) December 25, 1836.
(c) October 31, 1833.
(d) April 1, 1819.

8. What was the name of Harriet’s sister that worked in the Big House in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?
(a) Stephanie.
(b) Susan.
(c) Mary.
(d) Karen.

9. 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) “Womanizing.”
(c) “Stealing things.”
(d) “Absolute honesty.”

10. Who was the president of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee when Harriet first visited it in Chapter 11: “Stranger in a Strange Land”?
(a) Franklin B. Sanborn.
(b) Jacob Jackson.
(c) John A. Andrew.
(d) J. Miller McKim.

11. What name was Harriet Tubman called as a child?
(a) Minta.
(b) Tito.
(c) Ella.
(d) Izzy.

12. How much money did Harriet pay to a lawyer to look up all of Old Rit’s masters, according to the author in Chapter 9: “The Patchwork Quilt”?
(a) $8.
(b) $5.
(c) $10.
(d) $2.

13. Harriet discovered that Old Rit had originally been willed to a young woman named what in Chapter 9: “The Patchwork Quilt”?
(a) Ellen Craft.
(b) Catherine Kane.
(c) Eliza Ann Brodins.
(d) Mary Patterson.

14. 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”?
(a) Schenectady, New York.
(b) Bucktown, Maryland.
(c) Charleston, South Carolina.
(d) Birmingham, Alabama.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long did Harriet stay with her first job as a cook in Philadelphia in Chapter 11: “Stranger in a Strange Land”?

2. In what year was Harriet Ross married to John Tubman?

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

4. Thomas Jefferson was President of the United States during what years?

5. Harriet was how old in the summer of 1826?

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