1. What ailment did Harriet contract while working for the Cooks in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Measles.
(d) Smallpox.

2. What was the name of the builder that Harriet and her father were hired out to in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet”?
(a) Thomas Sims.
(b) J. Miller McKim.
(c) John Stewart.
(d) Peter Pennington.

3. Tice Davids was a slave that ran away from his owner where?
(a) In Kentucky.
(b) In Mississippi.
(c) In Alabama.
(d) In Georgia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. How much did Dr. Thompson say cotton brought per pound in 1837?

3. Harriet discovered that Old Rit had originally been willed to a young woman named what in Chapter 9: “The Patchwork Quilt”?

4. What was the nickname of Nat Turner?

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

(see the answer key)

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