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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. In what year was Harriet Tubman born?
(a) 1794.
(b) 1820.
(c) 1857.
(d) 1805.

2. What was the name of Harriet’s sister Mary’s husband?
(a) Charles Nalle.
(b) John Bowley.
(c) William Still.
(d) Joe Bailey.

3. Where did Harriet and her fugitive group stop to spend a night and part of the day as they made their way North in Chapter 17: “Moses Arrives with Six Passengers”?
(a) Bucktown.
(b) Middletown.
(c) Clamtown.
(d) Capetown.

4. How old was John Chase described as in the records in Chapter 17: “Moses Arrives with Six Passengers”?
(a) 29.
(b) 36.
(c) 20.
(d) 17.

5. Reverend Theodore Parker was elected chairman of what committee in Chapter 12: “Freedom’s Clothes”?
(a) The Committee of the Emancipation Proclamation.
(b) The Free Men’s Liberation Committee.
(c) The Executive Committee of the Boston Vigilance Committee.
(d) The Committee for Universal Equality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harriet had not seen her father for how many years when she and her brothers stayed in the fodder house by their cabin in Chapter 17: “Moses Arrives with Six Passengers”?

2. Who served as a watchdog and guardian of runaway slaves in Ripley, according to the author in Chapter 6: “The Underground Road”?

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

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

5. When the search for Shadrach finally ended, he was sent by the Boston Vigilance Committee where via the Underground Railroad?

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