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

2. 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”?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Cannabis.
(c) Opium.
(d) Mescaline.

3. Harriet Tubman was present when who was inaugurated as Governor of Massachusetts in January of 1861?
(a) John A. Andrew.
(b) Henry Clay.
(c) Jefferson Davis.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

4. What twelve-year-old boy does the narrator discuss at the end of Chapter 2: “The First Years”?
(a) Theodore Parker.
(b) John Bowley.
(c) Henry Clay.
(d) Jacob Jackson.

5. Who was the secretary of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee when Harriet first visited it in Chapter 11: “Stranger in a Strange Land”?
(a) John A. Andrew.
(b) J. Miller McKim.
(c) William Still.
(d) Jacob Jackson.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long did Harriet stay with her first job as a cook in Philadelphia in Chapter 11: “Stranger in a Strange Land”?

2. Who told Harriet in Chapter 20: “The Lecture Platform” that he had a letter from Franklin Sanborn relating John Brown’s goal of obtaining recruits in Canada?

3. What was the nearest village to the plantation where Harriet Tubman was born?

4. 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?

5. Who does Old Rit say is in Cambridge staying at the tavern in Chapter 5: “Flight”?

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