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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: "Shuck This Corn".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Thomas Jefferson when he died?
(a) 64.
(b) 59.
(c) 83.
(d) 76.

2. What two African Americans began to publish Freedom’s Journal, according to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) John Stewart and Nat Turner.
(b) Thomas Sims and John Bowley.
(c) Frederick Douglass and William Henry Ross.
(d) John Russwurm and Reverend Samuel Cornish.

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

4. Where was The Liberator published?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Cleveland, Ohio.
(c) Southampton, Virginia.
(d) Boston, Massachusetts.

5. According to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years,” Denmark Vesey quoted the following from what book in the Old Testament before the resurrection: “Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee”?
(a) The Book of Habakkuk.
(b) The Book of Exodus.
(c) The Book of Ezekiel.
(d) The Book of Zechariah.

Short Answer Questions

1. Denmark Vesey bought his freedom when he was how old, according to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years”?

2. 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”?

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

4. Harriet was how old in the summer of 1826?

5. Who does Old Rit say is in Cambridge staying at the tavern in Chapter 5: “Flight”?

(see the answer key)

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