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

Multiple Choice 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”?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 9 months.

2. What was the nearest village to the plantation where Harriet Tubman was born?
(a) Bucktown.
(b) Fawntown.
(c) Hawktown.
(d) Capetown.

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

4. What was Mrs. Cook’s profession in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?
(a) She was a horse trainer.
(b) She was a baker.
(c) She was a weaver.
(d) She was a teacher.

5. Who told Harriet that Edward Brodas had died in Chapter 7: “Shuck this Corn”?
(a) Old Rit.
(b) William Craft.
(c) Franklin B. Sanborn.
(d) Peter Pennington.

6. In what year was Harriet Tubman born?
(a) 1805.
(b) 1794.
(c) 1820.
(d) 1857.

7. What was the Canadian government’s reply when Henry Clay made his second plea to make an agreement to return American slaves, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) “All parties have already been given full Canadian citizenship.”
(b) “The people of Canada are repulsed by the practice of slavery.”
(c) “We can return the slaves for no less than one million dollars each.”
(d) “It is utterly impossible to agree to a stipulation for the surrender of fugitive slaves.”

8. In describing Benjamin Ross, the narrator says in Chapter 3: “Six Years Old,” “All through the plantation, from the Big House to the stables, to the fields, he had a reputation for” what?
(a) “Absolute honesty.”
(b) “Stealing things.”
(c) “Telling stories.”
(d) “Womanizing.”

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

10. Where did Denmark Vesey and his followers plan to kill all of the white people, according to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years”?
(a) Schenectady, New York.
(b) Charleston, South Carolina.
(c) Birmingham, Alabama.
(d) Bucktown, Maryland.

11. After Harriet and her brothers turn back from fleeing, she learns they’ve been sold to a slave trader from where in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Mississippi.

12. How much wood did Harriet usually cut per day as a part of her father’s team in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet”?
(a) Two cords.
(b) Four cords.
(c) One cord.
(d) Half a cord.

13. Harriet Greene was usually called what, according to the narrator inChapter 1: “The Quarter”?
(a) Old Doc.
(b) Old Rit.
(c) Old Cat.
(d) Old Bird.

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

15. How old was Harriet when her father told her “Hat, you walk like a Injun” in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet”?
(a) 14.
(b) 10.
(c) 16.
(d) 19.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was it when the woman wearing the faded sunbonnet stopped and spoke to Harriet in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?

2. How many siblings did Harriet Tubman have in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?

3. Where was The Liberator published?

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

5. The man who was to oversee the plantation after Edward Brodas’s death was a minister where?

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