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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 was the Canadian government’s reply when Henry Clay made his second plea to make an agreement to return American slaves, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) “It is utterly impossible to agree to a stipulation for the surrender of fugitive slaves.”
(b) “We can return the slaves for no less than one million dollars each.”
(c) “The people of Canada are repulsed by the practice of slavery.”
(d) “All parties have already been given full Canadian citizenship.”

2. Tice Davids was a slave that ran away from his owner where?
(a) In Alabama.
(b) In Georgia.
(c) In Kentucky.
(d) In Mississippi.

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”?
(a) Betelgeuse.
(b) The North Star.
(c) The Southern Cross.
(d) Rigel.

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

5. Harriet Greene was usually called what, according to the narrator inChapter 1: “The Quarter”?
(a) Old Bird.
(b) Old Cat.
(c) Old Rit.
(d) Old Doc.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Old Rit say is in Cambridge staying at the tavern in Chapter 5: “Flight”?

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

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

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

5. How many slaves were hung along with Denmark Vesey for plotting the insurrection, according to the author in Chapter 2: “The First Years”?

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