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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Harriet when “the whispering about freedom increased,” according to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years”?
(a) 16 years old.
(b) 9 years old.
(c) 11 years old.
(d) 2 years old.

2. When Harriet ran away from Miss Susan in Chapter 5: “Flight” she stayed in a pigpen from Friday until when?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Tuesday.

3. What year was it when Harriet Tubman visited the office of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee in Chapter 11: “Stranger in a Strange Land”?
(a) 1842.
(b) 1835.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1850.

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

5. What food did Harriet take with her when she fled North alone in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?
(a) Pretzels and cheese.
(b) Ashcake and salt herring.
(c) Smoked catfish and gingerbread.
(d) Cornbread and pickled eggs.

6. How long did Harriet do housework in the home where she and her father were hired out before asking if she could work with the men in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet”?
(a) 10 months.
(b) 5 months.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 1 month.

7. The man who was to oversee the plantation after Edward Brodas’s death was a minister where?
(a) Bucktown.
(b) Burlington.
(c) Wilmington.
(d) Charleston.

8. Thomas Jefferson composed the initial draft of what famous document?
(a) The Declaration of Independence.
(b) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(c) The Bill of Rights.
(d) The Magna Carta.

9. How many siblings did Harriet Tubman have in Chapter 4: “Hired Out”?
(a) 9.
(b) 3.
(c) 12.
(d) 7.

10. 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. Sims.
(c) Mr. Jackson.
(d) Mr. Barrett.

11. Nat Turner was a slave where, according to the author in Chapter 6: “The Underground Road”?
(a) Charleston, South Carolina.
(b) Boston, Massachusetts.
(c) Southampton, Virginia.
(d) Macon, Georgia.

12. Who told Harriet that Edward Brodas had died in Chapter 7: “Shuck this Corn”?
(a) Old Rit.
(b) William Craft.
(c) Peter Pennington.
(d) Franklin B. Sanborn.

13. For how long did Harriet stay with her first job as a cook in Philadelphia in Chapter 11: “Stranger in a Strange Land”?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 9 months.

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

15. 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) “Telling stories.”
(b) “Absolute honesty.”
(c) “Stealing things.”
(d) “Womanizing.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The office of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee was located upstairs in what building?

2. What was the nickname of Nat Turner?

3. Who was Harriet Greene’s husband?

4. What year was it when Harriet Ross began to make a patchwork quilt in Chapter 9: “The Patchwork Quilt”?

5. On what date was the antislavery newspaper The Liberator first published?

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