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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. When was Thomas Jefferson born?
(a) January 5, 1732.
(b) March 28, 1760.
(c) September 19, 1749.
(d) April 13, 1743.

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

3. On what date was the antislavery newspaper The Liberator first published?
(a) January 1, 1831.
(b) June 14, 1837.
(c) July 4, 1835.
(d) March 26, 1840.

4. It was December of what year that Harriet Tubman set out with the band of fugitives she planned to take to Canada in Chapter 14: “The Railroad Runs to Canada”?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1847.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1851.

5. Why did Harriet feel guilty after the death of Edward Brodas?
(a) She thought her prayers killed him.
(b) She abetted his murder.
(c) She stole the master’s fruit.
(d) She killed him while he slept.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Harriet ran away from Miss Susan in Chapter 5: “Flight” she stayed in a pigpen from Friday until when?

2. Tice Davids planned to cross what river in Ripley, according to the author in Chapter 6: “The Underground Road”?

3. William Still supplied Harriet with money and sent her and the refugees on to what city in Chapter 15: “Go On or Die”?

4. Of what did Harriet think in Chapter 12: “Freedom’s Clothes” “did not change a person, did not really matter”?

5. Where did Denmark Vesey and his followers plan to kill all of the white people, according to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years”?

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