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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Third Week of May 1820.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do many people say about Randolph?
(a) He is a drunk.
(b) He is an excellent politician.
(c) He is crazy.
(d) He is Harriet's father.

2. Where does Mammy Ursula tell Harriet to go to see the clothing that is being made for her?
(a) To town.
(b) Sally's secret room.
(c) Jefferson's parlor.
(d) Mammy Ursula's cabin.

3. What did Harriet want to ask God when she was a small child?
(a) Why her siblings had died.
(b) If there were there any black angels.
(c) Why he made animals in so many shapes, sizes, and colors.
(d) Why she wasn't free.

4. When Harriet tells Jefferson about the snow in December 1819, what does Jefferson say he will do?
(a) Go for a walk with her.
(b) Buy her a new coat.
(c) Put it in his Farm Book.
(d) Ask Burwell to shovel.

5. What will the overseer force Harriet to do if she stays at Monticello?
(a) Have sex with him.
(b) Work in the fields.
(c) Produce children.
(d) Marry another slave.

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 is Bankhead looking for when Harriet comes across him in the house?

3. Who knocks Bankhead to the floor after he attacks Harriet?

4. In Mid-May 1820, That Same Night, as Harriet wanders through the house after her argument with Thruston, where does Harriet find Bankhead?

5. Whom does Randolph say Harriet is just as white and educated as?

(see the answer key)

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