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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: "The Underground Road".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Thomas Jefferson born?
(a) April 13, 1743.
(b) January 5, 1732.
(c) September 19, 1749.
(d) March 28, 1760.

2. When Harriet ran away from Miss Susan in Chapter 5: “Flight” she stayed in a pigpen from Friday until when?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Tuesday.

3. In what year did Henry Clay make a second plea to the government of Canada, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) 1827.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1844.
(d) 1853.

4. What was the name of Miss Susan’s visiting sister in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) Miss Emily.
(b) Miss Rebecca.
(c) Miss Daisy.
(d) Miss Johanna.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what county was Harriet Tubman born?

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

3. 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?

4. Tice Davids was a slave that ran away from his owner where?

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

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