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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: "A Glory Over Everything".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year was it when Harriet Ross began to make a patchwork quilt in Chapter 9: “The Patchwork Quilt”?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1843.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1835.

2. Ben said to Old Rit in Chapter 5: “Flight” that the Master had begun selling his big timber to whom?
(a) The army.
(b) The telegraph company.
(c) The shipbuilders.
(d) Carpenters in the city.

3. What sentimental item did Harriet take with her when she fled North alone in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?
(a) Her quilt.
(b) Her necklace.
(c) Her hat.
(d) Her shoes.

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 discovered that Old Rit had originally been willed to a young woman named what in Chapter 9: “The Patchwork Quilt”?
(a) Mary Patterson.
(b) Ellen Craft.
(c) Eliza Ann Brodins.
(d) Catherine Kane.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years,” Denmark Vesey quoted the following from what book in the Old Testament before the resurrection: “Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee”?

4. Nat Turner was a slave where, according to the author in Chapter 6: “The Underground Road”?

5. What year was it when the woman wearing the faded sunbonnet stopped and spoke to Harriet in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?

(see the answer key)

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