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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 nickname of Nat Turner?
(a) The Devil.
(b) The Prophet.
(c) The Railroadman.
(d) The Master.

2. What Secretary of State was persuaded in 1826 to ask the Canadian government to work out a plan to return runaway slaves to their owners?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Theodore Parker.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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. Ben said to Old Rit in Chapter 5: “Flight” that the Master had begun selling his big timber to whom?

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

5. Harriet Greene was usually called what, according to the narrator inChapter 1: “The Quarter”?

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