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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. Shadrach was arrested in Boston on what date and charged with being a fugitive slave?
(a) May 5, 1854.
(b) January 22, 1857.
(c) July 17, 1849.
(d) February 15, 1851.

2. Who does Old Rit say is in Cambridge staying at the tavern in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) The Sheriff.
(b) The preacher.
(c) The trader.
(d) The Governor.

3. Ben said to Old Rit in Chapter 5: “Flight” that the Master had begun selling his big timber to whom?
(a) Carpenters in the city.
(b) The shipbuilders.
(c) The telegraph company.
(d) The army.

4. In what year was Thomas Sims sent to Vicksburg, where the Federal Army was besieging the city?
(a) 1858.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1863.
(d) 1849.

5. Harriet Tubman was approximately how tall?
(a) 5 feet.
(b) 5 feet 8 inches.
(c) 6 feet 1 inch.
(d) 5 feet 3 inches.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word in the text refers to the movement to end slavery?

3. On what day did two of Harriet’s sisters leave with the chain-gang in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?

4. Who was the United States Commissioner who presided at Thomas Sims’s hearing?

5. 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”?

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