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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 1859.
(c) 1851.
(d) 1854.

2. Harriet Tubman returned to Dorchester County in the spring of what year in Chapter 12: “Freedom’s Clothes”?
(a) 1851.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1847.
(d) 1853.

3. Harriet Tubman worked a summer where to save her money to go South and persuade John Tubman to join her in the North?
(a) Schenectady, New York.
(b) Bucktown, Maryland.
(c) Southampton, Virginia.
(d) Cape May, New Jersey.

4. In December of 1860, what state seceded from the Union, according to the author in Chapter 21: “With the Union Army”?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Georgia.
(d) South Carolina.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Sarah Hopkins Bradford’s book Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman published?

2. 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?

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

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

5. What did Harriet do when one of the slaves started to turn back on her trip to Canada in Chapter 15: “Go On or Die”?

Short Essay Questions

1. When was John Brown hanged? What is noted about his execution in the author’s historical note in Chapter 20: “The Lecture Platform”?

2. Where did Harriet and her group of fugitives stay in Rochester, New York, according to the author in Chapter 15: “Go On or Die”? How long was their journey into Canada?

3. What was Harriet’s objective in returning to Maryland in Chapter 16: “Be Ready to Step on Board”? How did she remit word that she would be arriving?

4. What speech of Abraham Lincoln’s is described in the author’s historical note at the end of Chapter 21: “With the Union Army”?

5. What threat of violence did Harriet make against one of the slaves in Chapter 15: “Go On or Die”? Why?

6. At whose urging did Harriet begin speaking publicly, according to the author in Chapter 20: “The Lecture Platform”? When and where did this occur?

7. Where did Harriet take the fleeing fugitive slaves she accompanied in Chapter 19: “The Old Folks Go North”? How did she travel?

8. Where did Harriet and her party of fugitives stop in Pennsylvania in Chapter 15: “Go On or Die”? Why?

9. Whom did Harriet Tubman marry later in life? Where did she live with her husband? How does the author describe Harriet’s death in Chapter 22: “The Last Years”?

10. What was the first obstacle that Harriet met on her journey North with refugees in Chapter 14: “The Railroad Runs to Canada”?

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