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

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

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

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

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. How many siblings did Harriet Tubman have in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?

3. What name was Harriet Tubman called as a child?

4. 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”?

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

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