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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) July 17, 1849.
(b) February 15, 1851.
(c) January 22, 1857.
(d) May 5, 1854.

2. When was Thomas Sims arrested, according to the author in Chapter 13: “The Legend of Moses”?
(a) October 14, 1854.
(b) April 3, 1851.
(c) June 22, 1847.
(d) March 11, 1852.

3. 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) Dallas or Houston.
(c) New Orleans or Natchez.
(d) Little Rock or Texarkana.

4. Why did Harriet feel guilty after the death of Edward Brodas?
(a) She thought her prayers killed him.
(b) She stole the master’s fruit.
(c) She killed him while he slept.
(d) She abetted his murder.

5. 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) “Absolute honesty.”
(b) “Stealing things.”
(c) “Womanizing.”
(d) “Telling stories.”

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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”?

4. 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”?

5. What was the name of Miss Susan’s visiting sister in Chapter 5: “Flight”?

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