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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
(b) George Ticknor Curtis.
(c) Jacob Jackson.
(d) John Bowley.

2. 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) Dr. Thompson.
(b) Charles Nalle.
(c) John Campbell Henry.
(d) Captain Smith.

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) Joe Bailey.
(d) Jefferson Davis.

4. William Still supplied Harriet with money and sent her and the refugees on to what city in Chapter 15: “Go On or Die”?
(a) Boston, Massachusetts.
(b) Schenectady, New York.
(c) Southampton, Virginia.
(d) Burlington, New Jersey.

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

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

7. 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) $22,000.
(b) $11,000.
(c) $33,000.
(d) $5,500.

8. Of what did Harriet think in Chapter 12: “Freedom’s Clothes” “did not change a person, did not really matter”?
(a) “Religion.”
(b) “Wealth.”
(c) “Education.”
(d) “Clothes.”

9. 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”?
(a) Stephen Douglas.
(b) John Stewart.
(c) John Chase.
(d) Jacob Jackson.

10. 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?
(a) Meadowlarks.
(b) Whippoorwills.
(c) Scrub jays.
(d) Robins.

11. What month was it that Harriet was leading the fugitives to Canada in the beginning of Chapter 15: “Go On or Die”?
(a) July.
(b) September.
(c) May.
(d) December.

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

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

14. Harriet told the fugitives about William and Ellen Craft escaping from where in Chapter 15: “Go On or Die”?
(a) Macon, Georgia.
(b) Jackson, Mississippi.
(c) Huntsville, Alabama.
(d) Columbia, South Carolina.

15. How much money did William R. Hughlett pay for Joe Bailey, according to the author in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks”?
(a) $1,200.
(b) $3,500.
(c) $2,000.
(d) $500.

Short Answer Questions

1. Benjamin and John Ross worked for whom in Bucktown in Chapter 16: “Be Ready to Step on Board”?

2. Harriet Tubman worked a summer where to save her money to go South and persuade John Tubman to join her in the North?

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

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

5. The letter that Harriet carried and was dated July 6, 1863, was from Colonel Montgomery to whom, in Chapter 22: “The Last Years”?

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