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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. It was the fall of what year that “Harriet Tubman began to feel uneasy about three of her brothers” that were still on the plantation in Maryland in Chapter 16: “Be Ready to Step on Board”?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1854.

2. Who was Harriet Greene’s husband?
(a) Benjamin Ross.
(b) John Chase.
(c) Thomas Sims.
(d) William Craft.

3. Where did Harriet Tubman find work as a cook in Philadelphia in Chapter 11: “Stranger in a Strange Land”?
(a) A church.
(b) An army base.
(c) A hotel.
(d) A mansion.

4. The yellow of Harriet’s quilt is described as being like what flower in Chapter 9: “The Patchwork Quilt”?
(a) The Mecca flower.
(b) The Sunflower.
(c) The Jerusalem flower.
(d) The Babylon flower.

5. What is described in Chapter 3: “Six Years Old” as “the star that stayed constant, not rising in the east and setting in the west as other stars appeared to do”?
(a) The Southern Cross.
(b) Betelgeuse.
(c) The North Star.
(d) Rigel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tice Davids was a slave that ran away from his owner where?

2. On what date did Thomas Jefferson die, according to the author’s notes in Chapter 3: “Six Years Old”?

3. Shadrach was arrested in Boston on what date and charged with being a fugitive slave?

4. Franklin Pierce was a United States President during what years?

5. What were the names of the strangers from Cambridge who joined the fugitive party led by Harriet going North in Chapter 16: “Be Ready to Step on Board”?

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