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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: "Minta Becomes Harriet".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many rooms comprised the cabins in the slave quarters where Harriet Tubman was born?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

2. What Secretary of State was persuaded in 1826 to ask the Canadian government to work out a plan to return runaway slaves to their owners?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Theodore Parker.
(d) Henry Clay.

3. Harriet was how old in the summer of 1826?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 11.
(d) 14.

4. Where did Harriet sleep in the Cooks’ house in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?
(a) In the attic.
(b) In the basement.
(c) In her own bedroom.
(d) In the kitchen.

5. What was the Canadian government’s reply when Henry Clay made his second plea to make an agreement to return American slaves, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) “All parties have already been given full Canadian citizenship.”
(b) “The people of Canada are repulsed by the practice of slavery.”
(c) “We can return the slaves for no less than one million dollars each.”
(d) “It is utterly impossible to agree to a stipulation for the surrender of fugitive slaves.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was The Liberator published?

2. Who does Old Rit say is in Cambridge staying at the tavern in Chapter 5: “Flight”?

3. On what date was Nat Turner executed?

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

5. What two African Americans began to publish Freedom’s Journal, according to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Flight”?

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