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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. Tice Davids was a slave that ran away from his owner where?
(a) In Kentucky.
(b) In Alabama.
(c) In Mississippi.
(d) In Georgia.

2. Who told Harriet that Edward Brodas had died in Chapter 7: “Shuck this Corn”?
(a) Peter Pennington.
(b) William Craft.
(c) Franklin B. Sanborn.
(d) Old Rit.

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

4. According to the author in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet,” when Harriet would think of running away, what would stop her?
(a) Her head injury.
(b) Her love for the Master.
(c) Her feelings of insecurity.
(d) Her dignity.

5. Harriet Tubman worked a summer where to save her money to go South and persuade John Tubman to join her in the North?
(a) Bucktown, Maryland.
(b) Southampton, Virginia.
(c) Schenectady, New York.
(d) Cape May, New Jersey.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Harriet do housework in the home where she and her father were hired out before asking if she could work with the men in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet”?

2. 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”?

3. How old was Harriet when “the whispering about freedom increased,” according to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years”?

4. 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?

5. What was the name of Joe Bailey’s brother that escaped with him in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks”?

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