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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the surgeon in charge of the Contraband Hospital that presented Harriet a certificate in Chapter 22: “The Last Years”?
(a) Franklin B. Sanborn.
(b) Stephen Douglas.
(c) Henry K. Durrant.
(d) Dr. Anthony Thompson.

2. Where was Harriet working in June of 1857, according to the author in Chapter 19: “The Old Folks Go North”?
(a) Troy, New York.
(b) Charleston, Virginia.
(c) Cape May, New Jersey.
(d) Bucktown, Maryland.

3. Harriet asked a friend to write a cryptic letter to what free negro that lived near the plantation where her brothers were in Chapter 16: “Be Ready to Step on Board”?
(a) John A. Andrew.
(b) Jacob Jackson.
(c) Jefferson Davis.
(d) Joe Bailey.

4. When was Thomas Sims arrested, according to the author in Chapter 13: “The Legend of Moses”?
(a) June 22, 1847.
(b) March 11, 1852.
(c) April 3, 1851.
(d) October 14, 1854.

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

6. On what date did Reverend Theodore Parker write a letter to Millard Fillmore in Chapter 12: “Freedom’s Clothes”?
(a) June 3, 1846.
(b) April 28, 1856.
(c) August 7, 1852.
(d) November 21, 1850.

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

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

9. What place did Harriet tell her father about in Canada in Chapter 17: “Moses Arrives with Six Passengers”?
(a) Burlington.
(b) St. Catharines.
(c) Schenectady.
(d) Vancouver.

10. 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) $500.
(b) $2,600.
(c) $2,250.
(d) $1,750.

11. 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) $33,000.
(b) $22,000.
(c) $5,500.
(d) $11,000.

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

13. What was Millard Fillmore’s title when he received a letter from Reverend Theodore Parker in Chapter 12: “Freedom’s Clothes”?
(a) Mayor of Boston.
(b) Vice President of the United States.
(c) President of the United States.
(d) Governor of Virginia.

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

15. Who passed Harriet Tubman in a wagon as she walked down the road with the chickens in Chapter 19: “The Old Folks Go North”?
(a) John Campbell Henry.
(b) Dr. Thompson.
(c) Captain Smith.
(d) Charles Nalle.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the records taken in Chapter 17: “Moses Arrives with Six Passengers,” John Ross had left behind his wife whose name was what?

2. Who said in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks,” “I’ll wade no freezin’ water for no crazy woman”?

3. What “handsome black-haired Senator from Illinois” was trying to persuade the Senate to repeal the slavery restriction clause in 1854, according to the author in Chapter 16: “Be Ready to Step on Board”?

4. Where did Franklin B. Sanborn ask Harriet to give a lecture when he first met her in Chapter 20: “The Lecture Platform”?

5. Harriet told the fugitives about William and Ellen Craft escaping from where in Chapter 15: “Go On or Die”?

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