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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21: "With the Union Army".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what did Harriet think in Chapter 12: “Freedom’s Clothes” “did not change a person, did not really matter”?
(a) “Religion.”
(b) “Clothes.”
(c) “Wealth.”
(d) “Education.”

2. What was the name of the slave trader that Harriet and her brothers were sold to in Chapter 7: “Shuck this Corn”?
(a) Austin Woodfolk.
(b) Franklin B. Sanborn.
(c) John Chase.
(d) John Campbell Henry.

3. The office of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee was located upstairs in what building?
(a) The Thompson Theatre.
(b) Faneuil Hall.
(c) The Governor’s Mansion.
(d) The Lebanon Seminary.

4. To whom did Thomas Garrett send a letter in Philadelphia to let him know that Harriet and the fugitives were on their way in Chapter 17: “Moses Arrives with Six Passengers”?
(a) Peter Poyas.
(b) J. Miller McKim.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Reverend Samuel Cornish.

5. What year was it that Harriet started wearing a bandana, according to the author in Chapter 6: “The Underground Road”?
(a) 1824.
(b) 1838.
(c) 1831.
(d) 1829.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the overseer throw at the runaway slave but instead hit Harriet with it in Chapter 7: “Shuck this Corn”?

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. In what year was Harriet Tubman born?

4. 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”?

5. What did Harriet describe drugging the twin babies with when she led a group of fugitives North in her lecture in Chapter 20: “The Lecture Platform”?

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