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

2. How old was Harriet when “the whispering about freedom increased,” according to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years”?
(a) 2 years old.
(b) 9 years old.
(c) 11 years old.
(d) 16 years old.

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

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) Betelgeuse.
(d) The North Star.

5. How much wood did Harriet usually cut per day as a part of her father’s team in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet”?
(a) Four cords.
(b) Two cords.
(c) One cord.
(d) Half a cord.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Harriet Greene’s husband?

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

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

4. 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?

5. When was Thomas Jefferson born?

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