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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. Who served as a watchdog and guardian of runaway slaves in Ripley, according to the author in Chapter 6: “The Underground Road”?
(a) Reverend John Rankin.
(b) Reverend Samuel Cornish.
(c) Reverend Theodore Parker.
(d) Reverend J.W. Loguen.

2. 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) 1853.
(d) 1844.

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 Southern Cross.
(c) Rigel.
(d) The North Star.

4. What was Mrs. Cook’s profession in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?
(a) She was a baker.
(b) She was a weaver.
(c) She was a teacher.
(d) She was a horse trainer.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On whose plantation was Harriet Tubman born?

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 1: “The Quarter,” Chesapeake Bay forms the western boundary of the section of Maryland that is sometimes called what?

4. When was Thomas Jefferson born?

5. According to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years,” Denmark Vesey quoted the following from what book in the Old Testament before the resurrection: “Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee”?

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