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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18: "A Wagon Load of Bricks".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Harriet’s sister that worked in the Big House in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?
(a) Stephanie.
(b) Mary.
(c) Karen.
(d) Susan.

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

4. William Still supplied Harriet with money and sent her and the refugees on to what city in Chapter 15: “Go On or Die”?
(a) Southampton, Virginia.
(b) Burlington, New Jersey.
(c) Boston, Massachusetts.
(d) Schenectady, New York.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the builder that Harriet and her father were hired out to in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet”?

2. The narrator says in Chapter 2: “The First Years” that “Like all the other babies in the quarter, Harriet Ross cut her first teeth on” what?

3. Why did Harriet feel guilty after the death of Edward Brodas?

4. Who was the one woman in the group of fugitives that Harriet was helping North in November of 1856 in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks”?

5. How many rooms comprised the cabins in the slave quarters where Harriet Tubman was born?

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