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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) William Still.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Joe Bailey.

2. Where did Harriet and her fugitive group stop to spend a night and part of the day as they made their way North in Chapter 17: “Moses Arrives with Six Passengers”?
(a) Clamtown.
(b) Capetown.
(c) Middletown.
(d) Bucktown.

3. How much money’s worth of “flesh and bone and muscle that belonged to Maryland planters” does the author say Harriet was smuggling to Canada in Chapter 14: “The Railroad Runs to Canada”?
(a) $11,000.
(b) $33,000.
(c) $22,000.
(d) $5,500.

4. 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) Bastille Hall.
(c) Washington Hall.
(d) Jefferson Hall.

5. Who said in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks,” “I’ll wade no freezin’ water for no crazy woman”?
(a) William Still.
(b) Theodore Parker.
(c) Peter Pennington.
(d) Henry Clay.

6. When was Sarah Hopkins Bradford’s book Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman published?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1851.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1869.

7. Harriet told the slave refugees that William Garrett would give everyone what when they arrived in Chapter 14: “The Railroad Runs to Canada”?
(a) Water.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Bread.
(d) Blankets.

8. Where was Harriet visiting friends on October 17, 1859, according to the author in Chapter 20: “The Lecture Platform”?
(a) Delaware.
(b) Rhode Island.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) New York.

9. Where was John Brown executed?
(a) Cape May, New Jersey.
(b) Knoxville, Tennessee.
(c) Charleston, Virginia.
(d) Macon, Georgia.

10. Who had won the Republican nomination for the presidential election in 1860?
(a) John Wilkes Booth.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Jefferson Davis.
(d) Henry Clay.

11. 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) Mary.
(d) Harriet Ann.

12. 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) $2,250.
(b) $2,600.
(c) $500.
(d) $1,750.

13. 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) J. Miller McKim and Peter Pennington.
(c) John Bowley and J. Miller McKim.
(d) Franklin B. Sanborn and Charles Nalle.

14. On what date was John Brown executed?
(a) March 6, 1862.
(b) December 2, 1859.
(c) October 27, 1861.
(d) June 17, 1854.

15. Harriet told the fugitive slaves in Chapter 14: “The Railroad Runs to Canada” that William Garrett was of what religion?
(a) He was a Methodist.
(b) He was a Quaker.
(c) He was a Baptist.
(d) He was a Catholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who passed Harriet Tubman in a wagon as she walked down the road with the chickens in Chapter 19: “The Old Folks Go North”?

2. How many nights after General Robert E. Lee’s surrender was Abraham Lincoln shot?

3. Where did Harriet go to rest and see her parents in the spring of 1864?

4. Harriet had not seen her father for how many years when she and her brothers stayed in the fodder house by their cabin in Chapter 17: “Moses Arrives with Six Passengers”?

5. How much money did William R. Hughlett pay for Joe Bailey, according to the author in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks”?

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