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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: "Minta Becomes Harriet".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 half-shilling
(c) A pound sterling.
(d) A shilling.

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

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Flight,” the chain gang walked down a “long, terrible road that ended” where?
(a) Little Rock or Texarkana.
(b) New Orleans or Natchez.
(c) Jackson or Atlanta.
(d) Dallas or Houston.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was to oversee the plantation after Edward Brodas died?

2. What special day occurred at the end of the month, according to the narrator in Chapter 3: “Six Years Old”?

3. 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?

4. What twelve-year-old boy does the narrator discuss at the end of Chapter 2: “The First Years”?

5. How old was Harriet when her father told her “Hat, you walk like a Injun” in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet”?

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