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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ben said to Old Rit in Chapter 5: “Flight” that the Master had begun selling his big timber to whom?
(a) Carpenters in the city.
(b) The telegraph company.
(c) The shipbuilders.
(d) The army.

2. What name was Harriet Tubman called as a child?
(a) Ella.
(b) Izzy.
(c) Minta.
(d) Tito.

3. In what county was Harriet Tubman born?
(a) Washington County.
(b) Madison County.
(c) Talbot County.
(d) Dorchester County.

4. What year was it when Harriet Tubman reached Pennsylvania?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1834.
(d) 1849.

5. Who was to oversee the plantation after Edward Brodas died?
(a) Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
(b) Franklin B. Sanborn.
(c) William Craft.
(d) Dr. Anthony Thompson.

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

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

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

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

10. Tice Davids planned to cross what river in Ripley, according to the author in Chapter 6: “The Underground Road”?
(a) The Colorado River.
(b) The Arkansas River.
(c) The Mississippi River.
(d) The Ohio River.

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

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

13. What was the name of Miss Susan’s visiting sister in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) Miss Rebecca.
(b) Miss Emily.
(c) Miss Johanna.
(d) Miss Daisy.

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

15. 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 hatchet.
(c) A rock.
(d) A two-pound weight.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the American Revolutionary War take place?

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

3. What was Mrs. Cook’s profession in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?

4. How much wood did Harriet usually cut per day as a part of her father’s team in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet”?

5. 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”?

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