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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Harriet Ross married to John Tubman?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1844.
(d) 1833.

2. 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) 1857.
(c) 1842.
(d) 1834.

3. 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) “We can return the slaves for no less than one million dollars each.”
(b) “It is utterly impossible to agree to a stipulation for the surrender of fugitive slaves.”
(c) “All parties have already been given full Canadian citizenship.”
(d) “The people of Canada are repulsed by the practice of slavery.”

4. Who does Old Rit say is in Cambridge staying at the tavern in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) The Governor.
(b) The Sheriff.
(c) The preacher.
(d) The trader.

5. What was the name of Harriet’s sister Mary’s husband?
(a) Joe Bailey.
(b) Charles Nalle.
(c) John Bowley.
(d) William Still.

6. Where did Harriet sleep in the Cooks’ house in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?
(a) In the attic.
(b) In the kitchen.
(c) In her own bedroom.
(d) In the basement.

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

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

9. 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) Charleston, South Carolina.
(c) Bucktown, Maryland.
(d) Schenectady, New York.

10. What did Mr. Cook have his traps set for in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?
(a) Fishers.
(b) Otters.
(c) Muskrats.
(d) Beavers.

11. In what year did Henry Clay make a second plea to the government of Canada, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1827.
(c) 1844.
(d) 1853.

12. What ailment did Harriet contract while working for the Cooks in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?
(a) Measles.
(b) Smallpox.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Malaria.

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

14. 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) Mississippi.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Arkansas.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much money did Harriet pay to a lawyer to look up all of Old Rit’s masters, according to the author in Chapter 9: “The Patchwork Quilt”?

3. Who was the president of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee when Harriet first visited it in Chapter 11: “Stranger in a Strange Land”?

4. How long did Harriet do housework in the home where she and her father were hired out before asking if she could work with the men in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet”?

5. How many of her brothers did Harriet convince to flee with her in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?

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