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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. Where did Harriet Tubman find work as a cook in Philadelphia in Chapter 11: “Stranger in a Strange Land”?
(a) An army base.
(b) A mansion.
(c) A church.
(d) A hotel.

2. In what year did Henry Clay make a second plea to the government of Canada, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) 1827.
(b) 1844.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1853.

3. On whose plantation was Harriet Tubman born?
(a) Edward Brodas’s.
(b) Austin Woodfolk’s.
(c) Theodore Parker’s.
(d) John Bowley’s.

4. What was the Canadian government’s reply when Henry Clay made his second plea to make an agreement to return American slaves, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) “It is utterly impossible to agree to a stipulation for the surrender of fugitive slaves.”
(b) “All parties have already been given full Canadian citizenship.”
(c) “We can return the slaves for no less than one million dollars each.”
(d) “The people of Canada are repulsed by the practice of slavery.”

5. What was Millard Fillmore’s title when he received a letter from Reverend Theodore Parker in Chapter 12: “Freedom’s Clothes”?
(a) Governor of Virginia.
(b) President of the United States.
(c) Mayor of Boston.
(d) Vice President of the United States.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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”?

3. Harriet discovered that Old Rit had originally been willed to a young woman named what in Chapter 9: “The Patchwork Quilt”?

4. Harriet told the fugitives about William and Ellen Craft escaping from where in Chapter 15: “Go On or Die”?

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

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