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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: "A Glory Over Everything".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Henry Clay make a second plea to the government of Canada, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1844.
(d) 1827.

2. What was the name of Miss Susan’s visiting sister in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) Miss Johanna.
(b) Miss Rebecca.
(c) Miss Emily.
(d) Miss Daisy.

3. The slave that ran away while the others were shucking corn in Chapter 7: “Shuck this Corn” belonged to whom?
(a) Mr. Douglas.
(b) Mr. Jackson.
(c) Mr. Barrett.
(d) Mr. Sims.

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

5. Where was The Liberator published?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Cleveland, Ohio.
(c) Boston, Massachusetts.
(d) Southampton, Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who published the first issue of The Liberator?

3. The narrator says in Chapter 2: “The First Years” that “Like all the other babies in the quarter, Harriet Ross cut her first teeth on” what?

4. Thomas Jefferson was President of the United States during what years?

5. The man who was to oversee the plantation after Edward Brodas’s death was a minister where?

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