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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. The narrator says in Chapter 2: “The First Years” that “Like all the other babies in the quarter, Harriet Ross cut her first teeth on” what?
(a) “Stale bread.”
(b) “A slice of apple.”
(c) “A piece of pork rind.”
(d) “Beef ribs.”

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”?
(a) Birmingham, Alabama.
(b) Schenectady, New York.
(c) Charleston, South Carolina.
(d) Bucktown, Maryland.

3. What was the name of Miss Susan’s visiting sister in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) Miss Johanna.
(b) Miss Emily.
(c) Miss Rebecca.
(d) Miss Daisy.

4. 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) December 25, 1836.
(d) October 31, 1833.

5. Thomas Jefferson composed the initial draft of what famous document?
(a) The Magna Carta.
(b) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(c) The Declaration of Independence.
(d) The Bill of Rights.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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”?

3. On what date was the antislavery newspaper The Liberator first published?

4. 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”?

5. Who published the first issue of The Liberator?

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