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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did William and Ellen Craft go after arriving in Philadelphia, according to Harriet’s story in Chapter 15: “Go On or Die”?
(a) Boston, Massachusetts.
(b) Columbus, Ohio.
(c) Bangor, Maine.
(d) Chicago, Illinois.

2. Where was John Tubman murdered?
(a) Talbot County, Maryland.
(b) Wicomico County, Maryland.
(c) Somerset County, Maryland.
(d) Allegany County, Maryland.

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

4. Approximately how old was Peter Pennington described as in the wanted poster in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks”?
(a) 30.
(b) 15.
(c) 25.
(d) 40.

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

6. It was December of what year that Harriet Tubman set out with the band of fugitives she planned to take to Canada in Chapter 14: “The Railroad Runs to Canada”?
(a) 1847.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1851.

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

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

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

10. When did William Still publish the book of slaves’ records in The Underground Railroad?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1881.

11. Old Rit and Ben were arguing when Harriet arrived with the wagon in Chapter 19: “The Old Folks Go North” because Old Rit wanted to bring what along?
(a) Her family bible.
(b) A baby goat.
(c) A rocking chair.
(d) Her feather tick.

12. 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) 1861.
(c) 1857.
(d) 1850.

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

14. 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) Jefferson Davis.
(c) Joe Bailey.
(d) Jacob Jackson.

15. In what year was Thomas Sims sent to Vicksburg, where the Federal Army was besieging the city?
(a) 1858.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1863.
(d) 1849.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Harriet told the fugitive slaves in Chapter 14: “The Railroad Runs to Canada” that William Garrett was of what religion?

3. When was the Fugitive Slave Act enacted in the United States?

4. When was Thomas Sims arrested, according to the author in Chapter 13: “The Legend of Moses”?

5. 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”?

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