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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: "Hired Out".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The North Star.
(b) The Southern Cross.
(c) Betelgeuse.
(d) Rigel.

2. 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 Ezekiel.
(b) The Book of Habakkuk.
(c) The Book of Zechariah.
(d) The Book of Exodus.

3. Thomas Jefferson was President of the United States during what years?
(a) 1801-1809.
(b) 1817-1825.
(c) 1809-1817.
(d) 1793-1801.

4. 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) “A piece of pork rind.”
(b) “Beef ribs.”
(c) “Stale bread.”
(d) “A slice of apple.”

5. According to the narrator in Chapter 1: “The Quarter,” Chesapeake Bay forms the western boundary of the section of Maryland that is sometimes called what?
(a) The Southern Shore.
(b) The Eastern Shore.
(c) The Northern Shore.
(d) The Western Shore.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Harriet Greene’s husband?

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

3. On whose plantation was Harriet Tubman born?

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

5. Harriet Greene was usually called what, according to the narrator inChapter 1: “The Quarter”?

(see the answer key)

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