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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13: "The Legend of Moses".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What sentimental item did Harriet take with her when she fled North alone in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?
(a) Her quilt.
(b) Her hat.
(c) Her shoes.
(d) Her necklace.

3. What word in the text refers to the movement to end slavery?
(a) Suffrage.
(b) Resurrection.
(c) Abolitionism.
(d) Gentrification.

4. Thomas Sims was ordered to be returned to his owner where, according to the author in Chapter 13: “The Legend of Moses”?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Florida.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Thomas Sims sent to Vicksburg, where the Federal Army was besieging the city?

2. Harriet Tubman was approximately how tall?

3. How old was Thomas Jefferson when he died?

4. What year was it when the woman wearing the faded sunbonnet stopped and spoke to Harriet in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?

5. What was the Canadian government’s reply when Henry Clay made his second plea to make an agreement to return American slaves, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Flight”?

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