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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who published the first issue of The Liberator?
(a) Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
(b) William Henry Ross.
(c) George Ticknor Curtis.
(d) William Lloyd Garrison.

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years,” Denmark Vesey quoted the following from what book in the Old Testament before the resurrection: “Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee”?
(a) The Book of Exodus.
(b) The Book of Zechariah.
(c) The Book of Ezekiel.
(d) The Book of Habakkuk.

3. What year was it when the woman wearing the faded sunbonnet stopped and spoke to Harriet in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?
(a) 1842.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1834.
(d) 1849.

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

5. Harriet Tubman was approximately how tall?
(a) 5 feet.
(b) 6 feet 1 inch.
(c) 5 feet 8 inches.
(d) 5 feet 3 inches.

6. On what day did two of Harriet’s sisters leave with the chain-gang in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?
(a) Monday.
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Friday.

7. The man who was to oversee the plantation after Edward Brodas’s death was a minister where?
(a) Bucktown.
(b) Burlington.
(c) Wilmington.
(d) Charleston.

8. According to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Flight,” the chain gang walked down a “long, terrible road that ended” where?
(a) Little Rock or Texarkana.
(b) Dallas or Houston.
(c) New Orleans or Natchez.
(d) Jackson or Atlanta.

9. 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) Rigel.
(b) Betelgeuse.
(c) The Southern Cross.
(d) The North Star.

10. What was the nickname of Nat Turner?
(a) The Railroadman.
(b) The Master.
(c) The Devil.
(d) The Prophet.

11. When was Thomas Jefferson born?
(a) September 19, 1749.
(b) March 28, 1760.
(c) January 5, 1732.
(d) April 13, 1743.

12. According to the author in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet,” when Harriet would think of running away, what would stop her?
(a) Her love for the Master.
(b) Her head injury.
(c) Her feelings of insecurity.
(d) Her dignity.

13. What were the names of the two men who helped Denmark Vesey in the resurrection by building homemade pikes?
(a) John Chase and William Bailey.
(b) Peter Poyas and Mingo Harth.
(c) Henry K. Durrant and George Ticknor Curtis.
(d) Charles Nalle and John A. Andrew.

14. What year was it when Harriet Ross began to make a patchwork quilt in Chapter 9: “The Patchwork Quilt”?
(a) 1835.
(b) 1843.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1832.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Harriet when “the whispering about freedom increased,” according to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years”?

2. What was the name of the builder that Harriet and her father were hired out to in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet”?

3. The slave that ran away while the others were shucking corn in Chapter 7: “Shuck this Corn” belonged to whom?

4. How many slaves were hung along with Denmark Vesey for plotting the insurrection, according to the author in Chapter 2: “The First Years”?

5. Where did Harriet Tubman find work as a cook in Philadelphia in Chapter 11: “Stranger in a Strange Land”?

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