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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word in the text refers to the movement to end slavery?
(a) Abolitionism.
(b) Resurrection.
(c) Suffrage.
(d) Gentrification.

2. 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) 1854.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1850.

3. When was the Fugitive Slave Act enacted in the United States?
(a) 1770.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1845.
(d) 1850.

4. What runaway slave was arrested and going to trial on April 27, 1860, according to the author in Chapter 21: “With the Union Army”?
(a) Nat Turner.
(b) Mingo Harth.
(c) Charles Nalle.
(d) John Tubman.

5. How many trips does the author say Harriet Tubman made into Maryland between 1851 and 1857 to bring out slaves in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks”?
(a) 18.
(b) 4.
(c) 11.
(d) 26.

6. Where was Harriet Tubman on April 27, 1860, according to the author in Chapter 21: “With the Union Army”?
(a) Cape May, New Jersey.
(b) Burlington, New Jersey.
(c) Boston, Massachusetts.
(d) Troy, New York.

7. Where did Harriet go to rest and see her parents in the spring of 1864?
(a) St. Catharines.
(b) Auburn.
(c) Middletown.
(d) Wilmington.

8. Reverend Theodore Parker was elected chairman of what committee in Chapter 12: “Freedom’s Clothes”?
(a) The Executive Committee of the Boston Vigilance Committee.
(b) The Free Men’s Liberation Committee.
(c) The Committee of the Emancipation Proclamation.
(d) The Committee for Universal Equality.

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

10. 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”?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

11. How many nights after General Robert E. Lee’s surrender was Abraham Lincoln shot?
(a) 6.
(b) 13.
(c) 2.
(d) 25.

12. Who shot Abraham Lincoln?
(a) William Lloyd Garrison.
(b) J. Miller McKim.
(c) John Wilkes Booth.
(d) Denmark Vesey.

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

14. Who did Harriet describe as “the most famous of the escaped slaves” in Chapter 15: “Go On or Die”?
(a) William Henry Ross.
(b) William Bailey.
(c) John Tubman.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

15. 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) Middletown.
(b) Bucktown.
(c) Capetown.
(d) Clamtown.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Of what did Harriet think in Chapter 12: “Freedom’s Clothes” “did not change a person, did not really matter”?

4. Who told Harriet in Chapter 20: “The Lecture Platform” that he had a letter from Franklin Sanborn relating John Brown’s goal of obtaining recruits in Canada?

5. Who was the one woman in the group of fugitives that Harriet was helping North in November of 1856 in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks”?

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