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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 year was it when Harriet Ross began to make a patchwork quilt in Chapter 9: “The Patchwork Quilt”?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1832.
(c) 1843.
(d) 1835.

2. What ailment did Harriet contract while working for the Cooks in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Measles.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Tuberculosis.

3. Harriet discovered that Old Rit had originally been willed to a young woman named what in Chapter 9: “The Patchwork Quilt”?
(a) Ellen Craft.
(b) Catherine Kane.
(c) Eliza Ann Brodins.
(d) Mary Patterson.

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

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) Mayor of Boston.
(c) Vice President of the United States.
(d) President of the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harriet asked a friend to write a cryptic letter to what free negro that lived near the plantation where her brothers were in Chapter 16: “Be Ready to Step on Board”?

2. What was the name of John Tubman’s new wife when Harriet returned for him in Chapter 12: “Freedom’s Clothes”?

3. In what year was Thomas Sims sent to Vicksburg, where the Federal Army was besieging the city?

4. Who was to oversee the plantation after Edward Brodas died?

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

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