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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 was the nearest village to the plantation where Harriet Tubman was born?
(a) Fawntown.
(b) Hawktown.
(c) Bucktown.
(d) Capetown.

2. The woman who came looking for a young female slave to hire out in Chapter 4: “Hired Out” was married to whom?
(a) Matthew Cook.
(b) James Cook.
(c) Andrew Cook.
(d) Peter Cook.

3. 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 Zechariah.
(c) The Book of Exodus.
(d) The Book of Habakkuk.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many rooms comprised the cabins in the slave quarters where Harriet Tubman was born?

2. 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?

3. One of Maryland’s boundaries is a river. What was this river called?

4. 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”?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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