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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: "Hired Out".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Thomas Jefferson born?
(a) January 5, 1732.
(b) April 13, 1743.
(c) March 28, 1760.
(d) September 19, 1749.

2. Who was Harriet Greene’s husband?
(a) William Craft.
(b) John Chase.
(c) Thomas Sims.
(d) Benjamin Ross.

3. What is described in Chapter 3: “Six Years Old” as “the star that stayed constant, not rising in the east and setting in the west as other stars appeared to do”?
(a) Rigel.
(b) Betelgeuse.
(c) The Southern Cross.
(d) The North Star.

4. On whose plantation was Harriet Tubman born?
(a) Austin Woodfolk’s.
(b) Edward Brodas’s.
(c) John Bowley’s.
(d) Theodore Parker’s.

5. Denmark Vesey bought his freedom when he was how old, according to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years”?
(a) 25.
(b) 18.
(c) 33.
(d) 42.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name was Harriet Tubman called as a child?

2. How many rooms comprised the cabins in the slave quarters where Harriet Tubman was born?

3. Harriet was how old in the summer of 1826?

4. In describing Benjamin Ross, the narrator says in Chapter 3: “Six Years Old,” “All through the plantation, from the Big House to the stables, to the fields, he had a reputation for” what?

5. What was the nearest village to the plantation where Harriet Tubman was born?

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