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

2. On whose plantation was Harriet Tubman born?
(a) Edward Brodas’s.
(b) Theodore Parker’s.
(c) John Bowley’s.
(d) Austin Woodfolk’s.

3. 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 Western Shore.
(d) The Northern Shore.

4. How old was Thomas Jefferson when he died?
(a) 76.
(b) 64.
(c) 83.
(d) 59.

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

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. 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”?

3. In what county was Harriet Tubman born?

4. In what year was Harriet Tubman born?

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”?

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