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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18: "A Wagon Load of Bricks".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Harriet Tubman born?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1794.
(c) 1805.
(d) 1820.

2. 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”?
(a) $2,600.
(b) $1,750.
(c) $500.
(d) $2,250.

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

4. Who was the president of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee when Harriet first visited it in Chapter 11: “Stranger in a Strange Land”?
(a) Franklin B. Sanborn.
(b) J. Miller McKim.
(c) John A. Andrew.
(d) Jacob Jackson.

5. Who said in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks,” “I’ll wade no freezin’ water for no crazy woman”?
(a) Peter Pennington.
(b) Theodore Parker.
(c) William Still.
(d) Henry Clay.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Harriet discovered that Old Rit had originally been willed to a young woman named what in Chapter 9: “The Patchwork Quilt”?

3. It was the fall of what year that “Harriet Tubman began to feel uneasy about three of her brothers” that were still on the plantation in Maryland in Chapter 16: “Be Ready to Step on Board”?

4. Who published the first issue of The Liberator?

5. What was Millard Fillmore’s title when he received a letter from Reverend Theodore Parker in Chapter 12: “Freedom’s Clothes”?

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