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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21: "With the Union Army".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the one woman in the group of fugitives that Harriet was helping North in November of 1856 in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks”?
(a) Ellen Craft.
(b) Mary Patterson.
(c) Eliza Nokey.
(d) Catherine Kane.

2. Harriet had not seen her father for how many years when she and her brothers stayed in the fodder house by their cabin in Chapter 17: “Moses Arrives with Six Passengers”?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 10.

3. 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?
(a) “Stealing things.”
(b) “Absolute honesty.”
(c) “Womanizing.”
(d) “Telling stories.”

4. Who was to oversee the plantation after Edward Brodas died?
(a) William Craft.
(b) Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
(c) Dr. Anthony Thompson.
(d) Franklin B. Sanborn.

5. What year was it when the woman wearing the faded sunbonnet stopped and spoke to Harriet in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?
(a) 1849.
(b) 1842.
(c) 1857.
(d) 1834.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of Miss Susan’s visiting sister in Chapter 5: “Flight”?

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

4. What was the name of Joe Bailey’s brother that escaped with him in Chapter 18: “A Wagon Load of Bricks”?

5. Thomas Sims was ordered to be returned to his owner where, according to the author in Chapter 13: “The Legend of Moses”?

(see the answer key)

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