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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 reward amount posted on the wanted poster that Harriet and the fugitives discovered in their near-escape in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks”?
(a) $1,750.
(b) $2,600.
(c) $2,250.
(d) $500.

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) Scrub jays.
(b) Meadowlarks.
(c) Robins.
(d) Whippoorwills.

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

4. Thomas Jefferson composed the initial draft of what famous document?
(a) The Bill of Rights.
(b) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(c) The Declaration of Independence.
(d) The Magna Carta.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Henry Clay make a second plea to the government of Canada, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Flight”?

2. What “handsome black-haired Senator from Illinois” was trying to persuade the Senate to repeal the slavery restriction clause in 1854, according to the author in Chapter 16: “Be Ready to Step on Board”?

3. In what county was Harriet Tubman born?

4. When was Thomas Jefferson born?

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

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