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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. Harriet Tubman worked a summer where to save her money to go South and persuade John Tubman to join her in the North?
(a) Schenectady, New York.
(b) Bucktown, Maryland.
(c) Cape May, New Jersey.
(d) Southampton, Virginia.

2. What month was it that Harriet was leading the fugitives to Canada in the beginning of Chapter 15: “Go On or Die”?
(a) December.
(b) September.
(c) July.
(d) May.

3. What was the name of the builder that Harriet and her father were hired out to in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet”?
(a) J. Miller McKim.
(b) John Stewart.
(c) Thomas Sims.
(d) Peter Pennington.

4. Where did Harriet stop to buy some chickens in Chapter 19: “The Old Folks Go North”?
(a) Troy, New York.
(b) Bucktown, Maryland.
(c) Schenectady, New York.
(d) Macon, Georgia.

5. When recalling her patchwork quilt in Chapter 19: “The Old Folks Go North,” Harriet realized that it had been what to her?
(a) Freedom’s quilt.
(b) God’s quilt.
(c) Destiny’s quilt.
(d) The quilt of justice.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what county was Harriet Tubman born?

2. Thomas Jefferson was President of the United States during what years?

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Flight,” the chain gang walked down a “long, terrible road that ended” where?

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

5. What word in the text refers to the movement to end slavery?

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