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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date was the antislavery newspaper The Liberator first published?
(a) July 4, 1835.
(b) March 26, 1840.
(c) January 1, 1831.
(d) June 14, 1837.

2. 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.

3. When did the American Revolutionary War take place?
(a) 1775-1783.
(b) 1770-1776.
(c) 1776-1780.
(d) 1785-1792.

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

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

6. Thomas Jefferson was President of the United States during what years?
(a) 1817-1825.
(b) 1809-1817.
(c) 1801-1809.
(d) 1793-1801.

7. 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) Rigel.
(c) The Southern Cross.
(d) Betelgeuse.

8. For how long did Harriet stay with her first job as a cook in Philadelphia in Chapter 11: “Stranger in a Strange Land”?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 4 months.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 9 months.

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

10. What was the name of Harriet’s sister that worked in the Big House in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?
(a) Karen.
(b) Mary.
(c) Susan.
(d) Stephanie.

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

12. On what date was Nat Turner executed?
(a) February 4, 1824.
(b) September 27, 1827.
(c) May 19, 1828.
(d) November 11, 1831.

13. 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?
(a) “Stale bread.”
(b) “Beef ribs.”
(c) “A slice of apple.”
(d) “A piece of pork rind.”

14. According to the narrator in Chapter 1: “The Quarter,” Chesapeake Bay forms the western boundary of the section of Maryland that is sometimes called what?
(a) The Northern Shore.
(b) The Western Shore.
(c) The Southern Shore.
(d) The Eastern Shore.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The yellow of Harriet’s quilt is described as being like what flower 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. Nat Turner was a slave where, according to the author in Chapter 6: “The Underground Road”?

5. What twelve-year-old boy does the narrator discuss at the end of Chapter 2: “The First Years”?

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