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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19:.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money did Harriet pay to a lawyer to look up all of Old Rit’s masters, according to the author in Chapter 9: “The Patchwork Quilt”?
(a) $10.
(b) $5.
(c) $8.
(d) $2.

2. According to the author in Chapter 16: “Be Ready to Step on Board,” it was “common talk in the cabins that [Harriet’s brothers] had been sold and were to go South with the chain gang the day after” what?
(a) “Christmas.”
(b) “Halloween.”
(c) “Easter.”
(d) “Fourth of July.”

3. 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) 1859.
(b) 1847.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1851.

4. 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”?
(a) She told him she’d whip him.
(b) She gave him money to return.
(c) She called the police.
(d) She threatened to shoot him.

5. Ben said to Old Rit in Chapter 5: “Flight” that the Master had begun selling his big timber to whom?
(a) The army.
(b) The shipbuilders.
(c) The telegraph company.
(d) Carpenters in the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. How many trips does the author say Harriet Tubman made into Maryland between 1851 and 1857 to bring out slaves in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks”?

3. 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?

4. What was the name of the slave trader that Harriet and her brothers were sold to in Chapter 7: “Shuck this Corn”?

5. William Still supplied Harriet with money and sent her and the refugees on to what city in Chapter 15: “Go On or Die”?

(see the answer key)

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