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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through May 1820, Two Days Later.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Randolph tell Harriet will be around for a long time?
(a) Jefferson.
(b) The United States.
(c) Her chance at freedom.
(d) Slavery.

2. What can you see through the portholes in Jefferson's room?
(a) Sally's secret room.
(b) The fields.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Mammy Ursula's cabin.

3. How many of Sally's daughters died in infancy before Harriet was born?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) None.
(d) One.

4. How does Mammy Ursula respond when Harriet asks if Jefferson is her father?
(a) She denies it.
(b) She laughs.
(c) She says the evidence points that way.
(d) She refuses to speak about it.

5. Who gives Harriet a potion to help her sleep on the night she is attacked?
(a) Thruston.
(b) Sally.
(c) Jefferson.
(d) Mammy Ursula.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of their discussion in April 1820, what does Harriet think of what Randolph had to say?

2. What will the overseer force Harriet to do if she stays at Monticello?

3. In the story, Harriet recalls that Sally told her once about ___________, who rode up the mountain while Jefferson stayed and ate his breakfast.

4. Harriet is the _______ living child of Sally.

5. What does Thruston insist upon doing that annoys Harriet?

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