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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. What was the name of the slave trader that Harriet and her brothers were sold to in Chapter 7: “Shuck this Corn”?
(a) Austin Woodfolk.
(b) John Campbell Henry.
(c) Franklin B. Sanborn.
(d) John Chase.

2. What name was Harriet Tubman called as a child?
(a) Ella.
(b) Izzy.
(c) Tito.
(d) Minta.

3. What Secretary of State was persuaded in 1826 to ask the Canadian government to work out a plan to return runaway slaves to their owners?
(a) Frederick Douglass.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Theodore Parker.
(d) Henry Clay.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told Harriet that Edward Brodas had died in Chapter 7: “Shuck this Corn”?

2. Where was The Liberator published?

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

4. Where did Harriet sleep in the Cooks’ house in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?

5. What were the names of the two men who helped Denmark Vesey in the resurrection by building homemade pikes?

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