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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. How old was Harriet when “the whispering about freedom increased,” according to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years”?
(a) 2 years old.
(b) 16 years old.
(c) 11 years old.
(d) 9 years old.

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

3. Who was Harriet Greene’s husband?
(a) Thomas Sims.
(b) John Chase.
(c) William Craft.
(d) Benjamin Ross.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Harriet Tubman born?

2. Where did Harriet sleep in the Cooks’ house in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?

3. What was the nearest village to the plantation where Harriet Tubman was born?

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. What were the names of the two men who helped Denmark Vesey in the resurrection by building homemade pikes?

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