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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. On what date was the antislavery newspaper The Liberator first published?
(a) July 4, 1835.
(b) June 14, 1837.
(c) January 1, 1831.
(d) March 26, 1840.

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Flight,” the chain gang walked down a “long, terrible road that ended” where?
(a) Little Rock or Texarkana.
(b) New Orleans or Natchez.
(c) Dallas or Houston.
(d) Jackson or Atlanta.

4. What was the chief crop on the Eastern shore at the time when Harriet was hired out in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Spinach.
(c) Apples.
(d) Tobacco.

5. How many of her brothers did Harriet convince to flee with her in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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”?

3. Who published the first issue of The Liberator?

4. When Harriet ran away from Miss Susan in Chapter 5: “Flight” she stayed in a pigpen from Friday until when?

5. What was the name of the builder that Harriet and her father were hired out to in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet”?

Short Essay Questions

1. During what gathering did one of the slaves attempt escape in Chapter 7: “Shuck this Corn”? Where did he run?

2. What stories of runaway slaves did Harriet hear while working at the plantation in Chapter 6: “The Underground Road”?

3. What ailment did Harriet contract while she was hired out to the Cooks? How did Old Rit respond to Harriet’s condition when she returned to the plantation?

4. Who was Edward Brodas? What promise had he made to Harriet Tubman’s parents? What concerned Old Rit about her children in Chapter 2: “The First Years”?

5. What is related in the author’s historical note at the end of Chapter 5: “Flight”? Who was James Clay?

6. What news influenced Harriet’s second attempt at fleeing in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”? Where did she go?

7. What does the term “hired out” mean? When and where was Harriet first hired out from the Brodas plantation?

8. Who was Harriet hired out to after Old Rit had nursed her back to health in Chapter 5: “Flight”? How does the author describe Harriet’s treatment at this home?

9. What does the author describe in her historical note at the end of Chapter 6: “The Underground Road”?

10. What does the author describe in the historic note at the end of Chapter 3: “Six Years Old”?

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