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

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

3. What twelve-year-old boy does the narrator discuss at the end of Chapter 2: “The First Years”?
(a) John Bowley.
(b) Jacob Jackson.
(c) Theodore Parker.
(d) Henry Clay.

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”?
(a) “It is utterly impossible to agree to a stipulation for the surrender of fugitive slaves.”
(b) “All parties have already been given full Canadian citizenship.”
(c) “We can return the slaves for no less than one million dollars each.”
(d) “The people of Canada are repulsed by the practice of slavery.”

5. Harriet was how old in the summer of 1826?
(a) 11.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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”?

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

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

5. What name was Harriet Tubman called as a child?

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