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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. How old was Thomas Jefferson when he died?
(a) 76.
(b) 64.
(c) 59.
(d) 83.

2. Who published the first issue of The Liberator?
(a) William Henry Ross.
(b) George Ticknor Curtis.
(c) Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
(d) William Lloyd Garrison.

3. The woman who came looking for a young female slave to hire out in Chapter 4: “Hired Out” was married to whom?
(a) Peter Cook.
(b) Andrew Cook.
(c) James Cook.
(d) Matthew Cook.

4. The man who was to oversee the plantation after Edward Brodas’s death was a minister where?
(a) Burlington.
(b) Wilmington.
(c) Bucktown.
(d) Charleston.

5. What was the Canadian government’s reply when Henry Clay made his second plea to make an agreement to return American slaves, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) “It is utterly impossible to agree to a stipulation for the surrender of fugitive slaves.”
(b) “The people of Canada are repulsed by the practice of slavery.”
(c) “We can return the slaves for no less than one million dollars each.”
(d) “All parties have already been given full Canadian citizenship.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What name was Harriet Tubman called as a child?

2. On what date did Thomas Jefferson die, according to the author’s notes in Chapter 3: “Six Years Old”?

3. How old was Harriet when “the whispering about freedom increased,” according to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years”?

4. What was the name of Miss Susan’s visiting sister in Chapter 5: “Flight”?

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

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