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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. 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”?
(a) Rigel.
(b) The North Star.
(c) The Southern Cross.
(d) Betelgeuse.

2. Who was the United States Commissioner who presided at Thomas Sims’s hearing?
(a) George Ticknor Curtis.
(b) John Campbell Henry.
(c) Peter Jackson.
(d) Thomas Sims.

3. Who was Harriet Greene’s husband?
(a) Benjamin Ross.
(b) Thomas Sims.
(c) William Craft.
(d) John Chase.

4. When the search for Shadrach finally ended, he was sent by the Boston Vigilance Committee where via the Underground Railroad?
(a) Canada.
(b) England.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Mexico.

5. What was the name of Miss Susan’s visiting sister in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) Miss Daisy.
(b) Miss Johanna.
(c) Miss Emily.
(d) Miss Rebecca.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in Chapter 1: “The Quarter,” Chesapeake Bay forms the western boundary of the section of Maryland that is sometimes called what?

2. One of Maryland’s boundaries is a river. What was this river called?

3. The slave that ran away while the others were shucking corn in Chapter 7: “Shuck this Corn” belonged to whom?

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

5. According to the author in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet,” when Harriet would think of running away, what would stop her?

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