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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It was the fall of what year that “Harriet Tubman began to feel uneasy about three of her brothers” that were still on the plantation in Maryland in Chapter 16: “Be Ready to Step on Board”?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1857.
(d) 1854.

2. Where did Franklin B. Sanborn ask Harriet to give a lecture when he first met her in Chapter 20: “The Lecture Platform”?
(a) Faneuil Hall.
(b) Jefferson Hall.
(c) Bastille Hall.
(d) Washington Hall.

3. According to the records taken in Chapter 17: “Moses Arrives with Six Passengers,” John Ross had left behind his wife whose name was what?
(a) Rebecca.
(b) Betty Lou.
(c) Harriet Ann.
(d) Mary.

4. Who in Harriet’s fugitive party was able to read and read the wanted poster in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks”?
(a) Jacob Jackson.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) William Still.
(d) Joe Bailey.

5. Where did Levi Coffin operate the busiest branch of the Underground Railroad, according to the author in Chapter 21: “With the Union Army”?
(a) Eastern Virginia.
(b) Western Alabama.
(c) Southern Indiana.
(d) Northern Ohio.

6. What was the name of the horse that Harriet stole in order to help her parents flee in Chapter 19: “The Old Folks Go North”?
(a) Dollie Mae.
(b) Henrietta.
(c) Melissa Ann.
(d) Mary Beth.

7. By what nickname was Harriet Tubman called by many in 1858, according to the author in Chapter 20: “The Lecture Platform”?
(a) Annie Wagner.
(b) Priscilla Hutchins.
(c) Jenny Rodgers.
(d) Molly Pitcher.

8. What was the reward amount posted on the wanted poster that Harriet and the fugitives discovered in their near-escape in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks”?
(a) $2,600.
(b) $1,750.
(c) $500.
(d) $2,250.

9. Thomas Sims was ordered to be returned to his owner where, according to the author in Chapter 13: “The Legend of Moses”?
(a) Florida.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Georgia.

10. Who had written the document dated February 19, 1863, which read, “Pass the bearer, Harriet Tubman, to Beaufort and back to this place, and wherever she wishes to go; and give her free passage at all times, on all Government transports”?
(a) General David Hunter.
(b) General Gilmore.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Henry K. Durrant.

11. Old Ben was being questioned by the master because what slave had said that Ben helped him, and then returned to his master Barrett in Chapter 19: “The Old Folks Go North”?
(a) Jack.
(b) Benjamin.
(c) Robert.
(d) Peter.

12. What were the names of the strangers from Cambridge who joined the fugitive party led by Harriet going North in Chapter 16: “Be Ready to Step on Board”?
(a) Peter Jackson and John Chase.
(b) Franklin B. Sanborn and Charles Nalle.
(c) John Bowley and J. Miller McKim.
(d) J. Miller McKim and Peter Pennington.

13. Where did Harriet stop to buy some chickens in Chapter 19: “The Old Folks Go North”?
(a) Macon, Georgia.
(b) Bucktown, Maryland.
(c) Schenectady, New York.
(d) Troy, New York.

14. How old was John Chase described as in the records in Chapter 17: “Moses Arrives with Six Passengers”?
(a) 17.
(b) 20.
(c) 29.
(d) 36.

15. When recalling her patchwork quilt in Chapter 19: “The Old Folks Go North,” Harriet realized that it had been what to her?
(a) Freedom’s quilt.
(b) God’s quilt.
(c) Destiny’s quilt.
(d) The quilt of justice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What friend of Harriet’s did she consider lived in Syracuse, New York, in Chapter 19: “The Old Folks Go North”?

2. When was Sarah Hopkins Bradford’s book Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman published?

3. Who did Harriet and the fugitives meet when they arrived in Syracuse, New York, in Chapter 15: “Go On or Die”?

4. Who was the United States Commissioner who presided at Thomas Sims’s hearing?

5. As the legends of Moses spread through Dorchester and Caroline Counties, the overseers and masters would discover slaves missing, but they claimed that nothing out of the usual had occurred except for hearing the out-of-season call of what bird?

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