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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. Who was the president of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee when Harriet first visited it in Chapter 11: “Stranger in a Strange Land”?
(a) Jacob Jackson.
(b) Franklin B. Sanborn.
(c) J. Miller McKim.
(d) John A. Andrew.

2. On what date was Nat Turner executed?
(a) May 19, 1828.
(b) September 27, 1827.
(c) November 11, 1831.
(d) February 4, 1824.

3. How old was Harriet when “the whispering about freedom increased,” according to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years”?
(a) 2 years old.
(b) 11 years old.
(c) 16 years old.
(d) 9 years old.

4. What word in the text refers to the movement to end slavery?
(a) Resurrection.
(b) Gentrification.
(c) Suffrage.
(d) Abolitionism.

5. Who served as a watchdog and guardian of runaway slaves in Ripley, according to the author in Chapter 6: “The Underground Road”?
(a) Reverend Theodore Parker.
(b) Reverend Samuel Cornish.
(c) Reverend John Rankin.
(d) Reverend J.W. Loguen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harriet Greene was usually called what, according to the narrator inChapter 1: “The Quarter”?

2. What year was it when Harriet Tubman visited the office of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee in Chapter 11: “Stranger in a Strange Land”?

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

4. Who was the United States Commissioner who presided at Thomas Sims’s hearing?

5. Denmark Vesey bought his freedom when he was how old, according to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years”?

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