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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 the United States Commissioner who presided at Thomas Sims’s hearing?
(a) Thomas Sims.
(b) John Campbell Henry.
(c) Peter Jackson.
(d) George Ticknor Curtis.

2. On what date did Thomas Jefferson die, according to the author’s notes in Chapter 3: “Six Years Old”?
(a) July 4, 1826.
(b) April 1, 1819.
(c) October 31, 1833.
(d) December 25, 1836.

3. When did the American Revolutionary War take place?
(a) 1775-1783.
(b) 1776-1780.
(c) 1785-1792.
(d) 1770-1776.

4. 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”?
(a) Betelgeuse.
(b) Rigel.
(c) The Southern Cross.
(d) The North Star.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The man who was to oversee the plantation after Edward Brodas’s death was a minister where?

2. When was Thomas Sims arrested, according to the author in Chapter 13: “The Legend of Moses”?

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

4. Thomas Jefferson composed the initial draft of what famous document?

5. Ben said to Old Rit in Chapter 5: “Flight” that the Master had begun selling his big timber to whom?

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