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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did John Brown call himself when Harriet visited with him in Boston in Chapter 20: “The Lecture Platform”?
(a) General David Hunter.
(b) General Gilmore.
(c) Captain Smith.
(d) Dr. Anthony Thompson.

2. 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) $500.
(c) $3,500.
(d) $2,000.

3. Benjamin and John Ross worked for whom in Bucktown in Chapter 16: “Be Ready to Step on Board”?
(a) Eliza Ann Brodins.
(b) Charles Nalle.
(c) Catherine Kane.
(d) George Ticknor Curtis.

4. What was the name of William Henry Ross’s fiancée that he brought with him on the trip North in Chapter 16: “Be Ready to Step on Board”?
(a) Mary Patterson.
(b) Eliza Ann Brodins.
(c) Ellen Craft.
(d) Catherine Kane.

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

6. Who did Harriet and the fugitives meet when they arrived in Syracuse, New York, in Chapter 15: “Go On or Die”?
(a) General David Hunter.
(b) Reverend J.W. Loguen.
(c) Dr. Anthony Thompson.
(d) Reverend Theodore Parker.

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

8. The letter that Harriet carried and was dated July 6, 1863, was from Colonel Montgomery to whom, in Chapter 22: “The Last Years”?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Charles Nalle.
(c) General Gilmore.
(d) Jefferson Davis.

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

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

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

12. What did Harriet describe drugging the twin babies with when she led a group of fugitives North in her lecture in Chapter 20: “The Lecture Platform”?
(a) Opium.
(b) Mescaline.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Cannabis.

13. Shadrach was arrested in Boston on what date and charged with being a fugitive slave?
(a) July 17, 1849.
(b) February 15, 1851.
(c) May 5, 1854.
(d) January 22, 1857.

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

15. What was the name of the horse that Harriet stole in order to help her parents flee in Chapter 19: “The Old Folks Go North”?
(a) Henrietta.
(b) Dollie Mae.
(c) Melissa Ann.
(d) Mary Beth.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. 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”?

3. Old Ben was being questioned by the master because what slave had said that Ben helped him, and then returned to his master Barrett in Chapter 19: “The Old Folks Go North”?

4. The discovery of missing slaves always seemed to happen on what days of the week in Chapter 14: “The Railroad Runs to Canada”?

5. 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”?

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