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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. Who told Harriet that Edward Brodas had died in Chapter 7: “Shuck this Corn”?
(a) Peter Pennington.
(b) William Craft.
(c) Old Rit.
(d) Franklin B. Sanborn.

2. In what county does the author describe parties at the big plantations during harvest time in Chapter 7: “Shuck this Corn”?
(a) Talbot County.
(b) Trinity County.
(c) Dorchester County.
(d) Jefferson County.

3. What were the names of the two men who helped Denmark Vesey in the resurrection by building homemade pikes?
(a) Peter Poyas and Mingo Harth.
(b) John Chase and William Bailey.
(c) Henry K. Durrant and George Ticknor Curtis.
(d) Charles Nalle and John A. Andrew.

4. What was Mrs. Cook’s profession in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?
(a) She was a horse trainer.
(b) She was a weaver.
(c) She was a baker.
(d) She was a teacher.

5. Where did Denmark Vesey and his followers plan to kill all of the white people, according to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years”?
(a) Bucktown, Maryland.
(b) Charleston, South Carolina.
(c) Schenectady, New York.
(d) Birmingham, Alabama.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was The Liberator published?

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. The woman who came looking for a young female slave to hire out in Chapter 4: “Hired Out” was married to whom?

4. When was Thomas Jefferson born?

5. What twelve-year-old boy does the narrator discuss at the end of Chapter 2: “The First Years”?

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