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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Denmark Vesey bought his freedom when he was how old, according to the narrator in Chapter 2: “The First Years”?
(a) 25.
(b) 42.
(c) 18.
(d) 33.

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

3. How old was Thomas Jefferson when he died?
(a) 76.
(b) 59.
(c) 83.
(d) 64.

4. On what date was Nat Turner executed?
(a) November 11, 1831.
(b) May 19, 1828.
(c) February 4, 1824.
(d) September 27, 1827.

5. How old was Harriet when her father told her “Hat, you walk like a Injun” in Chapter 8: “Minta Becomes Harriet”?
(a) 14.
(b) 19.
(c) 10.
(d) 16.

6. 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.

7. According to the narrator in Chapter 1: “The Quarter,” Chesapeake Bay forms the western boundary of the section of Maryland that is sometimes called what?
(a) The Eastern Shore.
(b) The Western Shore.
(c) The Northern Shore.
(d) The Southern Shore.

8. On what date was the antislavery newspaper The Liberator first published?
(a) January 1, 1831.
(b) June 14, 1837.
(c) March 26, 1840.
(d) July 4, 1835.

9. What sentimental item did Harriet take with her when she fled North alone in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?
(a) Her quilt.
(b) Her shoes.
(c) Her hat.
(d) Her necklace.

10. How many rooms comprised the cabins in the slave quarters where Harriet Tubman was born?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

11. How many of her brothers did Harriet convince to flee with her in Chapter 10: “A Glory Over Everything”?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

12. What two African Americans began to publish Freedom’s Journal, according to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Flight”?
(a) Frederick Douglass and William Henry Ross.
(b) John Stewart and Nat Turner.
(c) John Russwurm and Reverend Samuel Cornish.
(d) Thomas Sims and John Bowley.

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

14. 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) 1827.
(c) 1844.
(d) 1853.

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) “Womanizing.”
(c) “Stealing things.”
(d) “Absolute honesty.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Old Rit say is in Cambridge staying at the tavern in Chapter 5: “Flight”?

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Flight,” the chain gang walked down a “long, terrible road that ended” where?

3. 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”?

4. How much did Dr. Thompson say cotton brought per pound in 1837?

5. Thomas Jefferson composed the initial draft of what famous document?

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