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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. What name was Harriet Tubman called as a child?
(a) Tito.
(b) Izzy.
(c) Minta.
(d) Ella.

2. What year was it that Harriet started wearing a bandana, according to the author in Chapter 6: “The Underground Road”?
(a) 1831.
(b) 1829.
(c) 1824.
(d) 1838.

3. How many siblings did Harriet Tubman have in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?
(a) 7.
(b) 12.
(c) 9.
(d) 3.

4. Miss Susan returned Harriet to the Brodas plantation, saying that she wasn’t worth what in Chapter 6: “The Underground Road”?
(a) A shilling.
(b) Sixpence.
(c) A pound sterling.
(d) A half-shilling

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On whose plantation was Harriet Tubman born?

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Flight,” the chain gang walked down a “long, terrible road that ended” where?

3. 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”?

4. How old was Thomas Jefferson when he died?

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?

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