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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harriet's husband insist about her?
(a) She is a literary woman
(b) She is a terrible cook
(c) She can't keep plants alive
(d) She is a wonderful mother

2. _______________ called Harriet "the little woman who made this big war."
(a) Calvin Stowe
(b) Frederick Douglass
(c) Abraham Lincoln
(d) Andrew Johnson

3. What is the name of Humboldt's last book geared toward nonscientific readers?
(a) Cosmos
(b) The Galaxy
(c) Star Trek
(d) Galatial Odysseus

4. In what countries do Humboldt and Bonpland spend two years?
(a) Columbia, Ecuador and Peru
(b) Ireland, Scotland and Wales
(c) Thailand, China, India
(d) Italy, Germany and France

5. What subject had been an unpleasant one to Harriet since her childhood?
(a) Slavery
(b) Illness
(c) Death penalty
(d) Women's rights

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stowe do after her friend, Eliza Stowe, dies?

2. What is Harriet's nickname?

3. Who is Elizabeth Cabot Cary?

4. Who does Harriet consider guilty of slavery?

5. Who is Aime Bonpland?

(see the answer key)

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