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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 chief crop on the Eastern shore at the time when Harriet was hired out in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Apples.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Spinach.

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

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

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

5. What was the nearest village to the plantation where Harriet Tubman was born?
(a) Hawktown.
(b) Capetown.
(c) Bucktown.
(d) Fawntown.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Harriet Greene’s husband?

2. Where did Denmark Vesey and his followers plan to kill all of the white people, according to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years”?

3. In what year did Henry Clay make a second plea to the government of Canada, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Flight”?

4. In what county was Harriet Tubman born?

5. What was the nickname of Nat Turner?

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