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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15: "Go On or Die".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet,” when Harriet would think of running away, what would stop her?
(a) Her dignity.
(b) Her love for the Master.
(c) Her head injury.
(d) Her feelings of insecurity.

2. As the legends of Moses spread through Dorchester and Caroline Counties, the overseers and masters would discover slaves missing, but they claimed that nothing out of the usual had occurred except for hearing the out-of-season call of what bird?
(a) Whippoorwills.
(b) Meadowlarks.
(c) Scrub jays.
(d) Robins.

3. Thomas Jefferson composed the initial draft of what famous document?
(a) The Magna Carta.
(b) The Declaration of Independence.
(c) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(d) The Bill of Rights.

4. Harriet discovered that Old Rit had originally been willed to a young woman on the condition that she be freed at what age in Chapter 9: “The Patchwork Quilt”?
(a) 35.
(b) 45.
(c) 30.
(d) 50.

5. When did William Still publish the book of slaves’ records in The Underground Railroad?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1845.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1881.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Harriet and the fugitives meet when they arrived in Syracuse, New York, in Chapter 15: “Go On or Die”?

2. Who was the secretary of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee when Harriet first visited it in Chapter 11: “Stranger in a Strange Land”?

3. What year was it when Harriet Tubman reached Pennsylvania?

4. Miss Susan returned Harriet to the Brodas plantation, saying that she wasn’t worth what in Chapter 6: “The Underground Road”?

5. After Harriet and her brothers turn back from fleeing, she learns they’ve been sold to a slave trader from where in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?

(see the answer key)

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