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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What food did Harriet take with her when she fled North alone in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?
(a) Ashcake and salt herring.
(b) Smoked catfish and gingerbread.
(c) Cornbread and pickled eggs.
(d) Pretzels and cheese.

2. Nat Turner was a slave where, according to the author in Chapter 6: “The Underground Road”?
(a) Macon, Georgia.
(b) Southampton, Virginia.
(c) Charleston, South Carolina.
(d) Boston, Massachusetts.

3. What special day occurred at the end of the month, according to the narrator in Chapter 3: “Six Years Old”?
(a) Issue day.
(b) Tax day.
(c) Arbor day.
(d) Remission day.

4. How many rooms comprised the cabins in the slave quarters where Harriet Tubman was born?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

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

6. What year was it when Harriet Tubman visited the office of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee in Chapter 11: “Stranger in a Strange Land”?
(a) 1842.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1835.
(d) 1854.

7. On what date did Thomas Jefferson die, according to the author’s notes in Chapter 3: “Six Years Old”?
(a) April 1, 1819.
(b) October 31, 1833.
(c) July 4, 1826.
(d) December 25, 1836.

8. What did the overseer throw at the runaway slave but instead hit Harriet with it in Chapter 7: “Shuck this Corn”?
(a) A log.
(b) A two-pound weight.
(c) A hatchet.
(d) A rock.

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

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

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

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

13. What was the chief crop on the Eastern shore at the time when Harriet was hired out in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Spinach.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Apples.

14. 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) Birmingham, Alabama.
(b) Schenectady, New York.
(c) Charleston, South Carolina.
(d) Bucktown, Maryland.

15. What Secretary of State was persuaded in 1826 to ask the Canadian government to work out a plan to return runaway slaves to their owners?
(a) Theodore Parker.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Henry Clay.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In what county was Harriet Tubman born?

3. According to the author in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet,” when Harriet would think of running away, what would stop her?

4. Harriet discovered that Old Rit had originally been willed to a young woman on the condition that she be freed at what age in Chapter 9: “The Patchwork Quilt”?

5. The woman who came looking for a young female slave to hire out in Chapter 4: “Hired Out” was married to whom?

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