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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15: "Go On or Die".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Harriet and her brothers turn back from fleeing, she learns they’ve been sold to a slave trader from where in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Mississippi.

2. What was the name of Harriet’s sister that worked in the Big House in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?
(a) Stephanie.
(b) Susan.
(c) Mary.
(d) Karen.

3. When was Thomas Sims arrested, according to the author in Chapter 13: “The Legend of Moses”?
(a) March 11, 1852.
(b) June 22, 1847.
(c) April 3, 1851.
(d) October 14, 1854.

4. 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) The North Star.
(b) The Southern Cross.
(c) Rigel.
(d) Betelgeuse.

5. Where did Harriet Tubman find work as a cook in Philadelphia in Chapter 11: “Stranger in a Strange Land”?
(a) A church.
(b) A hotel.
(c) A mansion.
(d) An army base.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date was Nat Turner executed?

2. When did William Still publish the book of slaves’ records in The Underground Railroad?

3. How much money’s worth of “flesh and bone and muscle that belonged to Maryland planters” does the author say Harriet was smuggling to Canada in Chapter 14: “The Railroad Runs to Canada”?

4. Harriet Tubman was approximately how tall?

5. Where was The Liberator published?

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